. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. LAYING OUT GARDENS. 71 <&oo© 171. A walk, six feet wide, separates the quarters from the west border, on which lettuces, radishes, early potatoes, early peas and beans, kidney-beans, early strawberries, and early horse-carrots, are to be cultivated. 172. Where it can be so arranged, the garden should be an oblong square : 100 yards from east to west, and 30 yards from north to south, is a very convenient form, and about the joroportions laid down in the accom- panyi
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. LAYING OUT GARDENS. 71 <&oo© 171. A walk, six feet wide, separates the quarters from the west border, on which lettuces, radishes, early potatoes, early peas and beans, kidney-beans, early strawberries, and early horse-carrots, are to be cultivated. 172. Where it can be so arranged, the garden should be an oblong square : 100 yards from east to west, and 30 yards from north to south, is a very convenient form, and about the joroportions laid down in the accom- panying plan. This allows the vegetables to range from north to south, which is always to be preferred, otherwise they get drawn to one side by the side- of the sun.—1, The site of light the house ; 2, the conservatory ; 3, a clump of trees and shrubs fronting the main entrance; 4, coach-house and stables ; 5, tool- house; 6, manure and frame yard ; 7, flower - borders and shrubberies ; 8, ferns and Ame- rican plants ; 9, rose clumps ; 10, circular beds for hollyhocks, dahlias, and other free-blooming plants in summer, and thinly planted with evergreens to take off the nakedness in winter; 11, arbour; 12, flower - beds ; 13, lawn; 14, paths; 15, beds for placing out flowers in pots; IC, kitchen-gardens; 17, peach wall; 18, east wall for plums, cherries, and pears. 173. It is sometimes advantageous to have buildings and even groups of. large trees contiguous to gardens ; where these are situated to the north, they not only break and turn aside the cold winds, but concentrate the heat of the sun, a great advantage when early crops are required. They also preserve the crops dra-ing winter. Buildings have this advantage over trees, that they afford the shelter without robbing the soil of the food necessary for its legiti- mate crop. In the accompanying plan it will be observed that the whole frontage north of the house is laid out as lawn, and to the south, that the breadth of the ho
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