. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book II. PLANTING THE SHRUBBERY. 809. 6154. Fruit-trees in shrubberies. " In shrubberies of considerable extent, fruit-trees may be interspersed at fifteen or twenty yards' distance, by which means a good deal of fruit may be obtained, and very much
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book II. PLANTING THE SHRUBBERY. 809. 6154. Fruit-trees in shrubberies. " In shrubberies of considerable extent, fruit-trees may be interspersed at fifteen or twenty yards' distance, by which means a good deal of fruit may be obtained, and very much beauty added to the shrubbery. In spring the blossoms of apples, cherries, and pears are beautiful; in autumn their fruits and the foliage of cherries in particular, give a lustre and variety that highly brightens the ap- pearance of other plants, especially of ; (Villa Gard. Direct. 16.) This mode, Sir W. Chambers tells us, is practised, by the Chinese when the patron is poor; that is, their shrubbery is composed of fruit-trees, and shrubs, and forms a sort of ornamental orchard. This we consider an advisable mode for an economical farm- residence ; but the general introduction of fruit-trees, in even mingled shrubberies, un- less of the species in their wild state, as crabs, wildings of pears, cherries, quinces, rasp- berries, &c. we consider as likely to destroy the character of the scene. It must be recollected too, that grafted trees, especially the apple and cherry, seldom grow so freely and produce such vigorous and natural-like heads as plants raised from seed; they are, therefore, soon overtopped by the others, or where they are placed among trees tliat do not grow higher than themselves, they seldom fail of producing deformed stunted heads. 6155. Forsyth, Abercrombie, and others, recommend their introduction, as it ap- Biiircaagggs pears to us, without due regard to any other object than the fruit they will pro- duce, and the fugacious beauty of
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