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desirable 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 everlast- 

 ingly on the same lines, which would not be desirable even if the 

 'soil were somewhat displaced laterally by cultivation. 



The Man-Power Garden. With a soil either naturally or arti- 

 ficially light and mellow, as discussed in Chapter IV, there is possi- 

 ble a very satisfactory compromise between horse and hand work 

 through the excellent wheel cultivators, seeders, etc., operated by a 

 man while walking. They can be found in all garden, tool and 

 supply stores and catalogues and should be used to replace slower 

 and more laborious hand work in all save the smallest dooryard 

 gardens, and even they are seldom too small to gain some advan- 

 tage from the use of these appliances. Though they may be op- 

 erated in very close rows it is much better for ease of cultivation 

 and for the growth of the plants, also, that ample distances be 

 given. C. M. Hoak, in the California Cultivator, gives good advice 

 on this point: 



Do not make the mistake of putting rows too close together. With 

 the exception of radishes, onions, lettuce and similar material, vegetables can 

 be spaced in rows 30 inches apart. Double rows with the companion rows 

 eight inches apart with the 30-inch spacing between is one of the most 

 satisfactory arrangements which can be made to allow thorough cultivation. 

 Try laying out your garden in this way, and every time you think you 

 ought to water cultivate with a five-pronged cultivator or a wheeled plow. 

 Your water bill will be lower and your vegetables better. 



Arrangement for Succession. It is a great convenience in 

 arranging for due succession in the garden (which will be further 

 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 irrigating 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. 



Shade in the Summer Garden. In arranging the summer gar- 

 den 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 vege- 

 tables have a point of view also and by their appearance they clearly 



