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wide between the rows to admit of horse-hoe 

 culture. The grapes and blackberries might 

 occupy one row, the raspberries and currants 

 a second row, rhubarb, asparagus and like 

 plants a third row. The spaces between these 



Fig. 138. Plan of a home garden. 



various fruits should be eight feet, as it is poor 

 economy to so crowd vines and bushes as to 

 force them to struggle the year through for 

 plant-food and moisture. A rod or two of land, 

 more or less, virtually amounts to nothing on 

 the farm ; crowding the plants is only admis- 

 sible in the city or village. Here the plants 

 may receive unusual care, and often may be 

 irrigated at fruiting time from the city hydrant. 

 The rows of ordinary vegetables may be thirty 

 inches apart, except in case of such plants as 

 onions, lettuce, and early beets. These small, 

 slow-growing esculents should be planted in 

 double rows. Starting from the last row of 

 potatoes a thirty inch space is measured off, 

 a row of lettuce planted, alid then one foot from 



