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row of an everbearing kind. Each year one-fourth the area is rotated 

 with Sweet Corn; and after the second season's picking the berries 

 are followed by Winter Turnips, or other late maturing vegetable. 

 Thus in each strip four crops are produced in four years: (1) no crop 

 from the young Strawberry plants; (2) heavy berry crop; (3) fair 

 berry crop and late Turnips; (4) Sweet Corn. 



The middle area is devoted to the larger vegetables Peas, Beans 

 (pole and dwarf), Tomatoes, Potatoes, Squash, etc., as the family 

 wishes. I find that Pole Beans give a greater yield to the square 

 yard than do Bush Beans, so to avoid the nuisance of yearly poles I 

 put them on two strips of woven wire, as I would Sweet Peas, and 

 make a vista down the center of the garden. Melons and Cucumbers 



Fig. 6. Aeroplane view of a suburban garden where Grapes, bush and tree fruits vie 

 with vegetables and flowers in ministering to family needs 



occupy too much ground in proportion to their food value, and are fre- 

 quently omitted. 



The area near the house furnishes the salad and small root crops, 

 as Radishes, Lettuce, Beets, Onions, Carrots, Cauliflower, Cabbage, 

 Kohlrabi. Spinach, Chard, Parsley, etc.; some of the rows yield a 

 succession of crops. The last sowings go into the coldframe for 

 Winter. As these all have ornamental foliage some of the effects of 

 formal bedding can be gotten in the blues and purples of Cabbage and 

 Beet, yellows of Chard, gray blue of Onion, and the contrast of feathery 

 Carrots with the broad leaves of Lettuce. Try your kitchen herbs 

 by themselves in a definite scheme, and you will admit that they may 

 rival Coleus and associates for interest to the eye, while they interest 

 the stomach. 



