The Busy Woman's Garden Book 



if spaced far enough apart, by passing a spade 

 down into the ground at a sufficient distance from 

 the plant to avoid disturbing the roots and Hf ting 

 a large spadeful of earth with the plants. The 

 hill that is to receive them should have been pre- 

 pared in advance so that the earth may slide off 

 the spade into the hole without disturbing or 

 breaking it in the least; the soil should not be 

 pressed down as this would have a tendency to 

 crumble, but any space about it should be filled 

 in carefully and water poured around it. Squash 

 or other vines moved in this way invariably live 

 and go on growing without any appreciable set- 

 back. A considerable patch of winter squash 

 — the Delicious — was entirely secured by taking 

 up plants that had come up self sown in various 

 places; somewhere some immature squash were 

 left in the garden the fall before ; some came from 

 the frame around a standpipe in the barnyard 

 which was filled with coal ashes. How the squash 

 came to come up in that unusual place is un- 

 known, but there were a nmnber of nice plants 

 and these were lifted on the spade and carried — 



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