How to lay out a garden : intended as a general guide in choosing, forming, or improving an estate, (from a quarter of an acre to a hundred acres in extent) with reference to both design and execution (1860)
Kemp, Edward, 1817-1891 · New York : Wiley · leaf 434
Theroots of the trees will in this way, too, be encouraged to keepnear the surface of the border; and the disposition may beincreased and perpetuated by having a layer of well-rottedmanure placed on the border every winter. ISTo particular compost is needed for the majority of fruit-trees. Good… … Fig. 204. The main thing, however, is to have the border dry, and warm,and comparatively shallow. If choice Pear, or Apple, or Plum, or Cherry trees are grownon an inner border, and are wished to be rendered very produc-tive without occupying much room, it will be worth while totreat these…
Landscape architecture
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