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in the same row, or close beside it. Let us think 

 for a moment about lettuce : You remember it was 

 thinned so each plant was ten inches from its neigh- 

 bor. We can set tomato plants or cabbage or 

 celery or Brussels sprouts or egg plants or sow 

 seeds of corn or beans or limas in these spaces before 

 the lettuce is ready to harvest. They will grow 

 slowly at first and not need much room, but when 

 the lettuce comes out the row is already occupied 

 by growing plants and no time has been lost. Let 

 us suppose we had planted beans between the let- 

 tuce. By this time the beans are bearing a crop 

 and in a short time the beans will be done and ready 

 to come out. Now we can plant another crop just 

 beside the beans. Let it be sweet corn an early 

 variety like Golden Bantam because it grows 

 quickly. If we plant some grains of corn between 

 the bean plants, every two feet, these will be grow- 

 ing when the beans are done. 



Let us use another example. We will suppose 

 our radish row is going to be re-planted. When the 

 radishes are just up out of the ground, we could 

 set out early cabbage plants every 18 inches; they 

 will go right on growing when the radishes are all 

 pulled out. Early cabbage plants will be ripe in 

 July, and after they are harvested we can sow tur- 



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