116 STATE HOKTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Tuesdmj Moriiing, 



The hall was well filled in good season, and at 9.30 A. ir. the meeting was 

 called to order. The exercises opened with prayer by Eev. A. E. Ketchum, of 

 South Haven. The topic for the forenoon was 



VEGETABLES—THE MARKET AND KITCHEN GARDEN. 



Mr. Tracy made some remarks on the position and plan for a farmer's 

 vegetable garden, which may be summarized as follows : 



1. The garden should be so placed as to be of easy access from the barn, so 

 that it may be cultivated without much loss of time when the horse is going 

 to or coming from the field work. 



3. It should not be encumbered with fruit trees or vines. These should 

 occupy a spot by themselves on one side. It is impossible to grow good 

 vegetables in a properly managed orchard without far more time and attention 

 than the ordinary farmer will give them. 



3. If possible, the garden should be in an open field so as to be easily 

 reached, and to facilitate turning while cultivating. If this is not practicable 

 it should be laid out longer than wide, and an easily opened gate provided at 

 one end for the entrance of the horse and cultivator, and space should be left 

 at each end for turning during cultivation. 



4. The different varieties should be planted in long rows reaching across the 

 garden, and arranged in the order in which they should be planted in the 

 spring. 



MrT Tracy illustrated his ideas by a plan, slightly altered from that pub- 

 lished in D. M. Ferry & Co.'s catalogue for 1882, of which we print a copy, 

 and explained it as follows : 



The varieties are arranged first, very nearly in the order in which they should 

 be set out, or planted, in the spring, with the exception of row 9, which should 

 come in about where row 13 is. And secondly, so that those vegetables which 

 grow late in the season, or remain out all winter, are grouped together on one 

 side. Thirdly, so that a rotation of crops may be secured by simply reversing 

 the plan, putting row No. ] in the place of row No. 14. 



Every part of the ground except the space 18 inches wide, between rows 6 

 and 7, can be cultivated with the common farm cultivator. 



The turning spaces at the ends may be planted late in the season with 

 cucumbers for pickles, putting a hill opposite the end of every other row ; this 

 will occupy the ground, and will scarcely hinder cultivation at all. 



The proportion of the different vegetables is about what will commonly be 

 most acceptable, but it will be seen that each one can have an additional row, 

 or occupy a part of one of the adjoining rows, without injury to the plan. _; 



