232 FUNDAMENTALS OF AGRICULTURE. 



SECTION XXXIV. THE GARDEN. 



By PROF. CHARLES A. KEFFER, 

 Department of Horticulture and Forestry, University of Tennessee. 



Garden is a word of larger meaning than is gener- 

 ally given it; for most people have in mind a place to 

 grow vegetables when they speak of the garden. In 

 its larger meaning it includes not only vegetables, 

 fruits and flowers, but the lawn as well. Such a gar- 

 den is best made in the country, where there is plenty 

 of room, but even a small city lot may grow grass, 

 flowers and vegetables, and in every small town there 

 should be room in every yard for all the things that 

 belong in a good garden. 



A Garden should Serve Its Purpose. Every well- 

 planned garden should serve fully the purposes for 

 which it was made. The vegetable section must yield 

 an abundance of the best products, in great variety, 

 and throughout the year. In the South there must be 

 no season when the garden does not provide food for 

 the gardener. In the North the garden must perforce 

 be idle through the winter months, and so, in the grow- 

 ing season, the Northern gardener must cultivate root 

 crops and vegetables for canning, besides those to be 

 used from day to day. 



Fruit Garden. In the fruit garden care must be 

 taken to select only those varieties that succeed in the 

 locality, and for this reason the fruit gardens in differ- 

 ent sections of the country differ greatly. Everywhere 

 there may be strawberries, but in many parts of the 

 South currants will not grow, while in the Dakotas it is 

 difficult to grow blackberries and grapes. 



Flower Garden. Everywhere the flower garden 

 may be made to yield great crops of bloom, but as with 

 fruits the gardener must be careful to choose varieties 

 adapted to his soil and climate. And every garden 

 may contain a lawn, even though it be but a few square 

 feet in extent, and the. lawn will be beautiful and sat- 



