352 THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



231 is a plan of a fenced garden, in which gates 

 are provided at the ends to allow the turning of 

 a horse and cultivator (Webb Donnell, in Ameri- 

 can Gardening). Fig. 232 shows a garden with 

 continuous rows but with two breaks running 

 across the area dividing the plantation into blocks. 

 The area is surrounded with a windbreak, and 

 the frames and permanent plants are at one 

 side. 



It is by no means necessary that the vegetable 

 garden should contain only kitchen -garden vege- 

 tables. Flowers may be dropped in here and 

 there, wherever a vacant corner occurs or a plant 

 dies. Such informal and mixed gardens usually 

 have a personal character which adds greatly to 

 their interest, and, therefore, to their value. One 

 is generally impressed with this informal char- 

 acter of the home -gardens in many European 

 countries, a type of planting which arises from 

 the necessity of making the most of every inch 

 of: land. It was the writer's pleasure to look 

 over the fence of a Bavarian peasant's garden 

 and to see, on a space about forty feet by one 

 hundred feet in area, a delightful mixture of 

 onions, pole beans, peonies, celery, balsams, 

 gooseberries, coleus, cabbages, sunflowers, beets, 

 poppies, cucumbers, morning-glories, kohl-rabi, 

 verbenas, bush beans, pinks, stocks, currants, 

 wormwood, parsley, carrots, kale, perennial phlox, 

 nasturtiums, feverfew, lettuce, lilies! 



