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IRRIGATION. 



required, by means of small canals made with a hoe and 

 the surplus will be caught in the foot drain, &, #. A great 

 variety of methods may be used with this and the previous 

 plans, so as to meet the necessities of all sorts of crops. 

 The renowned Erfurt cauliflowers are grown in gardens 

 irrigated on such a plan as this ; the water flowing in 

 permanent ditches being dipped up with long-handled 

 scoops, and scattered about the plants daily. These cau 

 liflowers are grown upon what was originally low, wet 

 soil, and the ditches serve at the same time for drainage 

 and irrigation. 



A plan for a garden very completely irrigated by means 

 of a well or reservoir may be laid out as follows, (see fig. 

 16). A road passes through the center and around the 



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Fig. 16. PLAN FOB IRRIGATING FROM A WELL. 



plot. The well and reservoir, windmill or horse-power, 

 are situated at the highest part of the ground, (see A). 

 From this the water is conveyed by channels, (shown by 

 dark lines), to the lower parts of the garden. From these 

 channels it is distributed in small furrows to every row of 

 plants or vegetables. For a small garden this system is 



