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drill, or with the hoe planting, very straight lines of seed- 

 ing can be done in a fraction of the time needed to work 

 with a line. But whether line or marker be used, it is de- 

 sirable to rotate the plants year by year so that the narrow 

 and wide row plantings shall change places on the plot, 

 else one might be so supernaturally accurate that the rows 

 would come everlastingly on the same lines, which would 

 not be desirable even if the soil were somewhat displaced 

 laterally by cultivation. 



It is great convenience in arranging for due succession 

 in the garden (which will be farther considered in the 

 chapter on planting) to give adjacent rows to vegetables 

 which mature at about the same time. By this arrange- 

 ment, say, half or a quarter of the garden lengthwise can 

 be cleaned up at the same time and the whole section be 

 at once replanted' or plowed up for later planting or irri- 

 gating as may be desirable. Of course if early plantings 

 for winter use are made in the same plot with plantings 

 which will go into the summer, each should be in its own 

 quarter of the garden. 



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 nec- 

 essary. 



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 rep- 

 resent the greater investments 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 



