ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



rich and light, giving to the plants the food 

 they require, and, with weekly cultivation 

 and an occasional soaking to the roots if 

 the weather be dry, you cannot fail to have 

 a successful garden. 



People continually ask me, "What is the 

 use of making the beds so deep?" and "Why 

 not put the enrichment on the top of the 

 ground?" If you make a garden with beds 

 but a foot in depth, the plants may struggle 

 along for a year, but look at them the sec- 

 ond year and see their stunted condition and 

 poor bloom, and in comparing such a garden 

 with one properly made, the answer is found. 

 If there is a foot of good rich soil below 

 the roots of the plants and all the rest of 

 the earth is equally good, the plants are 

 enabled to resist a drought that would other- 

 wise cause them to cease blossoming, and in 

 ordinary weather to reward the gardener 

 with a wealth of bloom. Good garden soil, 

 with some sand to lighten it if too heavy, 

 and plenty of old stable manure are all that 

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