III. 



PLANNING THE GARDEN 



THE arrangement of the garden is a matter 

 of more importance than one unfamiliar with 

 garden- work would naturally suppose. The 

 amateur is likely to think that it matters very 

 little how it is arranged, so long as seeds are 

 put into the ground and crops are harvested 

 from it. The item of labor is not taken into 

 consideration when this opinion is formulated. 

 It is possible to economize nearly if not quite 

 half the work by so planning the garden that 

 what is done in it can be done to the greatest 

 possible advantage. 



Time was when the average garden was 

 made up of beds five or six feet across, and 

 varying in length according to the amount of 

 each kind of vegetable grown in them, a bed 

 being devoted to each. The rows generally 

 ran across these beds instead of lengthwise of 

 them, and to get at the centre of the bed in 

 weeding one was obliged to get down on hands 



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