Planning the Garden 



effort to check their encroachments great lengths 

 of vines, bearing half grown marrows, were ruth- 

 lessly removed with no more apparent result than 

 to encourage a still more luxuriant growth and 

 to increase the gardener's knowledge of the 

 amount of pruning a really ambitions, vigorous 

 vine will stand. 



The bush varieties of many vegetables are a 

 great boon to the small home gardener as most 

 of them are prolific bearers and require no more 

 room than a hill of potatoes or an egg plant. 

 Squash, melons, lima beans — all have dwarf forms 

 that are preferable to the usual vine varieties. 



The home garden should not be too large — a 

 plot forty by eighty feet will grow all the summer 

 and winter vegetables a small family can make 

 use of and a considerable surplus for sale, 

 especially is this the case where the com and 

 vines are planted outside the garden proper. 

 Potatoes, too, are excluded from this estimate, 

 though a few rows of early potatoes may find 

 room available. 



The accompanying planting table, while in- 



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