CHAPTER II 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



THE size of the vegetable garden will 

 naturally depend upon the space at 

 your disposal. Let everyone with even a 

 little ground give a certain portion, no 

 matter how small, to the growing of vege- 

 tables, and if possible, raise enough of these 

 good things to supply the home table and 

 occasionally to spare a choice basketful to a 

 less fortunate friend. 



The vegetable garden, if a large one, 

 should always be laid out so that access can 

 be readily had to all parts of it, either by 

 horse and cart or with a wheelbarrow. 



I have a lasting monument to my own 



short-sightedness in a garden laid out in 



Box-edged plots. There is ample room for 



a horse and cart to pass between the plots, 



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