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of the space, and always plant in rows rather 

 than in beds. There ought of course to be a 

 seed-bed space; and also space for hotbeds and 

 coldframes, if full provision is to be made for 

 the best work. But these are all assembled 

 along one end or side, with the permanent veg- 

 etables for their neighbors — such things as as- 

 paragus and rhubarb — and so do not break up 

 the main portion of the garden. This avoids 

 interference with the permanent things when 

 plowing is done, and preserves the units of the 

 garden in the proper and efficient manner. 



Whatever may be said, or may have been 

 said at any time by anybody, of other fertil- 

 izers, nothing will ever supersede stable manure. 

 Green manures should be used also, in the form 

 of cow-peas, vetch, or rye, sown broadcast when 

 the garden is harvested, to be plowed under 

 with the coming of spring again; but the short- 

 season of growth which intensive gardening al- 

 lows these is not sufficient to provide, through 

 them, all that the ground needs. Of commer- 

 cial fertilizers always remember that, though 

 they do what is claimed of them in many in- 

 stances, they do it at tremendous expense to the 

 land — and their use must be constantly carried 

 on, once it is adopted. Whereas in countries 

 as densely populated as China, farming and gar- 



