HOUSE AND GARDEN 
i6 
April, 
1912 
to train fruit trees is made with iron posts set about ten feet 
apart, and on these wires are strung about nine inches apart. The 
height of the trellis will depend somewhat upon the form in 
which the trees are trained. It ought not to be less than six 
feet. This form of trellis is much better than one made of wood, 
as parts of the wooden trellises will need replacing in a few 
years. The trellises should be built before planting the fruit 
trees and the trees should be planted close up to the wire. 
The straight lines of some formal gardens and the regularity 
of all, have been popular with many people from the earliest days 
of gardening. Indeed, the trouble of those striving to uplift 
gardening has been to prevent the formal garden from running 
into a riot of regular arrangement. Due to this, the bedding 
plants and the rows of iMother Carey’s Chickens find less favor 
to-day. But there ma\- be a comliination of this regularity, espe¬ 
The great advantage of dwarf trained fruits is that one can employ 
them to good effect in the smallest space, as with this cherry tree 
cially where it exists for a 
sensible reason and a true 
purpose, as in the vegetable 
garden. There is much of 
beauty in the foliage of 
beet, lettuce, carrot and 
countless other vegetables. 
A careful selection can 
show these productions to 
best advantage. Sometimes 
an arrangement is made ac¬ 
cording to height; some¬ 
times, according to kind. 
There is a great variety, 
giving a chance for personal 
taste. 
One man gained attrac¬ 
tiveness by putting his 
higher crops at the back of 
the garden. Corn formed 
the background for pole 
beans, then bush beans, peas, 
etc. Another gardner in¬ 
troduced a visitor to his for¬ 
mal garden. Where the per¬ 
gola usually overlooks a for¬ 
mal arrangement of flowers, 
he had a pergola covered 
with thriving grapevines. 
But, in place of the flowers, 
the path in the center looked upon regular rows of crisp, fresh 
vegetables, tomatoes trained on trellises, and the graceful foliage 
of the pea-vines growing on upright supports. To him, it far 
surpassed any formal garden in the accepted sense of the word 
he had ever beheld. 
One very attractive vegetable and fruit garden which I have 
visited several times is arranged in this way. The vegetable gar¬ 
den is divided up into several parts by walks, and between the 
walks and vegetables are trellises six or eight feet high on which 
dwarf fruit trees are trained. In other parts of this same garden 
there are walks bordered with dwarf fruit trees in bush form 
under which annual flowering plants are grown. These annuals 
could be very well supplemented by strawberries for the first few 
years after the planting of the fruit trees, as several crops could 
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The surface of this stone wall affords sufficient room to train a row of 
sturdy peach trees. What is more, this method produces fine fruit 
