Home Fruit-Garden 221 



Two rows, lima beans, four dozen hills, 18 inches apart (4 feet). 



Six rows, bunch beans; in succession sow seeds in drills, placing 

 seeds about 6 inches apart in the row; follow by late cabbage, turnips 

 or spinach (12 feet). 



Two rows, radishes, four sowings, planted in double rows 6 

 inches apart (3 feet). 



Two rows, lettuce, two sorts, adapted for early and late use 

 (3 feet). 



One row, parsley and peppergrass (1^ feet). 



The space occupied by the last three plants may be given over 

 to winter squashes by planting these before other crops are off the 

 ground. 



The satisfactions in a home fruit-garden are not to 

 be measured by the money costs. It cannot be said that 

 fruit can be bought more cheaply than it can be grown in 

 the garden, for the market does not supply the varieties 

 or the quality that one may secure from his own plantation. 



It is desirable that a fruit-garden be made a part of a 

 landscape design of a place, as regularly as the flower- 

 garden, vegetable-garden, garage, or recreation areas. 

 (Page 34.) 



The condensed fruit-garden requires the best of ferti- 

 lizing and of care. 



MAPS AND RECORDS 



One of the most annoying parts of fruit-growing is 

 keeping track of the varieties that inevitably accumulate 

 in plantations to which the owner gives much loving 

 thought, and making a record of the performance of indi- 

 vidual trees, vines and bushes. 



The best means is a systematic plat, map or diagram 

 of the plantation, in which every tree or every row of 

 small-fruits is given a number. It is well to designate the 

 rows in orchards by letters, and then to number each 



