Garden planning and planting . FIG. 4 thorn, the dark lines denote where the top shoot and the tap rootmust be cut otf respectively, then it will be ready to plant as shownat B ; c shows a nice Privet plant; d a Holly, and e a Beech. TheMyrobella Plum and the Privet, four plants of the former and one ofthe latter, form a good hedge. Thorns and Beech also answer thepurpose well. The Holly should be planted to form a hedge itself. 140 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING Sometimes owners of gardens like to plant trees, both evergreenand deciduous, in their fences. Fig. 6 shows how the trees must beplant
Garden planning and planting . FIG. 4 thorn, the dark lines denote where the top shoot and the tap rootmust be cut otf respectively, then it will be ready to plant as shownat B ; c shows a nice Privet plant; d a Holly, and e a Beech. TheMyrobella Plum and the Privet, four plants of the former and one ofthe latter, form a good hedge. Thorns and Beech also answer thepurpose well. The Holly should be planted to form a hedge itself. 140 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING Sometimes owners of gardens like to plant trees, both evergreenand deciduous, in their fences. Fig. 6 shows how the trees must beplanted, a shows a specimen before it is lifted, b shows it dulylifted, and c, the most important sketch of all, shows how it isplanted. It is absolutely necessary to prepare the positions care-fully, and advisable to put in comparatively small FIG. O FIG. 6 Making: a Small Kitchen Garden The amateur who intends to make a small kitchen garden mustset about the work just as cautiously and as carefully as the personwho contemplates making a very large garden. In the small gardenevery square foot of ground must be utilised to the very advan-tage. This also should be so in the case of the large garden ; but ifevery available yard of ground be not cropped the loss is perhaps,not as much felt as in the case of the smaller garden. Q. Is it absolutely necessary to have a wall or other kind of fencebuilt round a new kitchen garden \ MAKING SMALL KITCHEN GARDEN 141 A. No ; it is not absolutely necessary, but it is advisable to erecta fence of some kind. Q. Which kind of fence is the best 1 A. A wall, certainly, if a permanent fence be required, and one,too, that can be utilised for various purposes.
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