Occupations > Abercrombie's improved practical gardener; with a monthly calendar for the flower garden

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INTHODUCHO.N,
be raised to fourteen feet; the east and west
walls to twelve feet; and the south wall to ten
feet above the surface of the ground. If the
garden be larger, the walls may be somewhat
higher, but not in proportion if they extend to
several aCres. The extreme height of the north
wall of any garden should not exceed eighteen
feet; the east and west walls fifteen; and the
south one twelve. The reader will observe that
the tenns north and south wall, are here used to
denote the north and south sides of the garden;
.but in speaking of wall-fruit, if it be said a tree
requires a south wall, it must be understood to
mean a wall with a south aspect. It may be
asked, why are the walls of different heights, or
why is the back or north wall built higher than
the others; for which there are two reasons:
first, by being raised higher it shelters the garden
from the northern blast; and, in the second
place, it aflbrds ample space for training the finer
sorts of fruit-trees on the south side of the wall,
or best aspect of the garden.
The aspect is the next consideration to be
regarded. South aspects are generally consider¬
ed the best for fruit-trees, but reason and expe¬
rience teaches that an aspect a few points to the
east, is the best for all sorts of fruit that require
the most regular heat to bring them to perfection
and earliest to maturity. It may be argued that
the hottest part of the day is the afternoon
»nd that the sun shines stronger then than in the
Inorning, and so it doest because it continues to