92 City Homes on Country Lanes 



dency is to overplant all the berries. One loganberry 

 bush, one mammoth blackberry and one Himalaya berry 

 per individual are as much or more than can be used 

 if the vines are carefully attended." 



The varieties of fruit trees would naturally vary 

 with the climate. Of the housekeeping side of the 

 matter, he speaks as follows : 



"Just as the programme of life is figured on a card 

 system, so is the housekeeping calculated from the 

 maturities column shown above in the planting chart 

 for each month of the year. A menu made up from 

 the maturities column for every day is then shown; 

 and then, in the 'advance-work' column, can be counted 

 and set forth exactly the number of glasses of jelly 

 and preserved fruits and vegetables contained in the 

 whole year's menu. These itemized figures are carried 

 to the proper month when they should be prepared, and 

 the whole month's work is on the kitchen wall, right 

 at the time the crops are available for using. These 

 also demonstrate how much less is required of each 

 variety than is usually attempted. Only those who 

 have lived from an orchard and garden can appreciate 

 the true luxury of the annual menu. Taking November 

 1, as a specimen, it reads this way: 



"Breakfast: Sliced salway peaches, corn fritters, 

 comb honey, toast, coffee. 



"Lunch: String-bean salad, fried tomatoes, milk 

 gravy, boiled potatoes, tea. 



"Dinner: Tomato soup, ripe olives, lettuce, boiled 

 squab, baked sweet potatoes, lemon pie, coffee." 



In many places some other kind of pickles would 

 be substituted for olives, and some other kind of fruit 



