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to which allusion is made in the chapter on Farmer's 

 Gardens in California. 



Family Garden Programmes. It will surprise anyone 

 who carries out rapid succession of plantings to see how 

 much desirable food can be secured from a very small 

 area. An enthusiastic farm gardener of Lakeside, San 

 Diego county, says that his garden of 50 feet square sup- 

 plies enough vegetables, excepting potatoes, for a large 

 family, and requires less than half a day's attention dur- 

 ing a week. He grows the following vegetables, planting 

 each month in the year as follows : 



January After the 20th, turnips, cabbage seed, carrots, 

 lettuce, peas. 



February Radishes, beets, salsify, spinach, onion seed 

 or sets. 



March Potatoes (in field), turnips, cabbage, lettuce, 

 peas, cabbage plants. 



April Cucumbers, watermelons, muskmelons, squashes, 

 tomato plants, radishes, beets, salsify, corn, beans, sweet 

 potatoes, cabbage seed. 



May Carrots, lettuce, peas, onion seed or sets. 



June Radishes, beets, beans, corn, salsify, cabbage 

 plants. 



July Carrots, lettuce, cabbage seed. 



August Potatoes (in field), corn, beans, radishes. 



September Cabbage plants, peas, turnips, salsify, and 

 carrots. 



October Beets, beans, onion sets, lettuce. 



November Turnips, spinach, salsify. 



December Winter radishes, peas, lettuce. 



He has the advantage of a very short period of frosts, 

 and light ones at that. He plants in rows 18 inches apart, 

 irrigates his garden every 10 days in trenches and culti- 

 vates twice a week. In favorable seasons he has natural 

 moisture from November to April or May. If the rainfall 

 is light he cultivates twice a week. 



Another arrangement for succession is that practiced by 

 a vineyardist in the Santa Cruz mountains, who grows 



