THE GROWING OF THE VEGETABLE PLANTS 



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plowing or tilling. The annual vegetables should be grown on 

 different parts of the area in succeeding years, thus practicing 

 something like a rotation of crops. If radish or cabbage mag- 

 gots or club-root become thoroughly established in the planta- 

 tion, omit for a year or more the vegetables on which they live. 

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ment for a kitchen- 

 garden is given in Fig. 

 292. In Fig. 293 is a 

 plan of a fenced garden, 

 in which gates are pro- 

 vided at the ends to 

 allow the turning of a 

 horse and cultivator 

 (Webb Donnell, in 

 American Gardening). 

 Figure 294 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 perma- 

 nent plants are at one 

 side, 

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A garden fence arranged to allow of horse 

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It is by no means 

 necessary that the 

 vegetable-garden contain only kitchen-garden products. Flow- 

 ers 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 that adds greatly to their interest, 

 and, therefore, to their value. One is generally impressed with 



