If the operations of culture and keeping are performed by the occupier himself, the annual amount of money required to be laid out will be very trifling. The first year, a good garden syringe, some watering-pots, a pruning-knife, a hammer, nails and list, a spade, rake, hoe, trowel, and three-pronged fork, a garden line, baskets, and ladder for the vine, etc, against the house, amounting in all to about 10l. or 12L, will require to be purchased; but the second and succeeding years there will only be wanted a few garden seeds, manure, tobacco, or other articles for destroying insects; nails, list, matting (for tying the espaliers, and for protecting any of the tender ornamental plants during winter, and the blossoms of the tender fruits in spring), and some occasional repairs and renewals; the cost of the whole of which cannot exceed 1l. or 2l. To employ a gardener to do all the work requisite in such a garden, during the summer months, would cost at least 3s. or 3s, 6d. per day; and thus, supposing him to work, at as average, three days a week, from the 1st of March to the 1st of November, the cost will amount to about 10l. at 3s. a day, and 12l. at 3s. 6d The remaining part of the year, viz. from the 1st of November to the 1st of March, (about seventeen or eighteen weeks,) need not cost, on an average, more than 3s. 6d. a week.

The whole expense, including seeds, etc, would thus be about 20l. a year. Where a man-servant was kept who was fond of gardening, he might, with occasional instructions during the first year from a professional gardener, perform all the work requisite.

143. The produce of such a suburban garden would, if a hired gardener were employed, probably not be worth more than the expense, if so much: but the great satisfaction of seeing the things in all their different stages of growth, and of being able to procure fresh salading and herbs nearly all the year; and, at the proper seasons, spinach, kidney-beans, and peas, when wanted, quite fresh out of the garden; will more than compensate for the outlay required to any person who can afford it. To those who cannot, or who do not wish to incur the necessary expense, we shall suggest a cheaper mode of planting and management.

A more economical mode of laying out and planting a back garden of the size of one of those in fig. 35. In this case, we would advise the trellis and strawberry edgings to be omitted, and the cross beds to be extended to the margins of the paved walks. One of these beds may be planted with gooseberries, another with currants, and a third with raspberries; and the other beds with kitchen crops and herbs, much in the same manner as indicated above, except that there will be only three beds for peas, instead of six. Against the house, there need not be any vine or other plant trained; and the circular bed in front may be planted solely with bulbs and annuals. This will lessen the first cost of the garden one-fifth or one-sixth, and the labour and expense of keeping it one-half.

$ 3. - Suburban gardens, where the principal object is ornamental display.