Author: Donald Grant Mitchell

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781230268194

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... thrive in a heavy loam; it will thrive in light sand; the borer does not attack its root; the caterpillar moth does not fasten its eggs (or very rarely) upon its twigs; the apple-moth spares a large proportion of its fruit. But even the pear, without care and cultivation, will disappoint; and the farmer who neglects any crop, will find, sooner or later, that whatever is worth planting, is worth planting well; whatever is worth cultivating, is worth cultivating well; and that nothing is worth harvesting, that is not worth harvesting with care. ENTER upon my garden by a little, crazy, rustic wicket, over which a Virginia creeper has tossed itself into a careless tangle of festoons. The entrance is overshadowed by a cherry-tree, which must be nearly half a century old, and which, as it filches easily very much of the fertilizing material that is bestowed upon the garden, makes a weightier show of fruit than can be boasted by any of the orchard company. A broad walk leads down the middle of the garden, --bordered on either side by a range of stout box, and interrupted midway of its length by a box My Garden. edged circle, that is filled and crowned with one cone-shaped Norway-Spruce. These lines, and this circlet of idle green, are its only ornamentation. Easterly of the walk is a sudden terrace slope, stocked with currants, raspberries, and all the lesser fruits, in a maze of belts and curves. Westward is a level open space, devoted to long parallel lines of garden vegetables. The slope, by reason of its surface and its crops, is subject only to fork-culture; the western half, on the other hand, has the economy of deep and thorough trench-ploughing, every autumn and spring. Nor is this an economy to be overlooked by a farmer. Very many, .