The first cost of laying out and planting a garden of the kind here described, will be about 30l.; and the annual expense afterwards, supposing a commercial gardener to be employed, will be, on an average, a day and a half per week throughout the year; an arrangement being made that this time shall be bestowed on the garden, according as it is wanted, and not formally at stated intervals of once a week; because in some weeks two days will be necessary, while in others half a day will suffice. The expense will depend on the rate of wages paid per day, which, about London, being about 3s. 6d. (the gardener finding bis own tools), will amount, with seeds, etc., to about 15l. a year. But the garden, if managed by a hired gardener, working in it only at stated intervals, cannot possibly be turned to so much account as if cultivated by the occupier, or his in-door servant; because, during the months of June, July, and August, there are operations which require to be attended to daily; such as the removal of insects, watering, &c; and which, if deferred, as they must necessarily be if a hired gardener only be employed, will endanger the crops, and, at all events, deteriorate their value both in quantity and quality.

We would not, therefore, recommend any one to cultivate his garden with a view to profit, unless he could do so with his own hands, or with those of a servant whom he was obliged to keep at any rate; because, assuredly, for the 15l. or 20l. a year which he must pay a hired gardener he might purchase as much fruit and vegetables as he could grow in a garden of the extent we have mentioned. Design V. - Two suburban villas, the gardens of which are laid out principally with a view to the culture of fruit trees and vegetables.