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In arranging the summer garden in the interior heat, it is 

 sometimes desirable to place low, tender-leaved plants like lettuce 

 between rows of tall vegetables which afford it partial shade. Tall 

 corn or pole beans may thus take the place of artificial screens 

 which might otherwise be necessary. 



VEGETABLE GROWING IN YOUNG ORCHARD AND VINEYARD. 



This subject is usually discussed from the point of view of 

 injury to the trees, and rightly so, because the trees represent the 

 greater investment and the greater expectations, but the lowly 

 vegetables have a point of view also and by their appearance they 

 clearly declare that whether they hurt the trees or not they would 

 like a better place on their own account. It is a fact that inter- 

 culture of vegetables in an orchard is soon abandoned because the 

 vegetables do not pay for the trouble and by the sight of them one 

 is not surprised that they do not pay. It would probably be much 

 better for trees, vegetables and owner if half an acre, if for home 

 use, and larger area, if for market, should be kept free of trees and 

 handled on a more intensive plan for the production of fine vege- 

 tables. When fruit prices were higher and orchard improvements 

 the only avenue to high acre-valuation, it is not surprising that 

 people tried to plant fruit trees everywhere on small tract pur- 

 chases even to making clothes-line posts of them, but now as 

 other resources are receiving better proportional esteem, a small, 

 first-class garden spot, worked up to the limits of its possibilities, 

 should receive attention not only for constant money-saving and 

 money-making, but as one of the most valuable improvements on 

 the place. 



There is no particular disadvantage or difficulty in growing 

 vegetables in young orchards or vineyards providing conditions 

 are right for it. Fruits and vegetables have been associated in 

 gardens, probably, ever since Adam failed through giving too 

 much attention to fruit. But the association of fruits and vege- 

 tables has been successful upon the garden policy of enrichment, 

 irrigation, and the highest known culture. This is quite different 

 from the proposition as it has arisen in California which is to grow 

 vegetables upon the orchard policy of cultivation for conserva- 

 tion of moisture and trust to the natural fertility of the land. It is 

 not surprising that the soil often rebels at the double burden as 



