THE GARDENETTE 



OR THE CITY BACK YARD GARDEN 



little volume is not designed as a guide 

 to those who have large areas to cultivate, 

 nor is it intended for the use of professional mar- 

 ket gardeners, but it is arranged to meet the 

 needs of the beginner, or amateur, and especially 

 for those who have limited areas that are avail- 

 able for this purpose. 



Few persons realize the possibilities of the 

 small piece of ground represented by the back- 

 yard of the ordinary city lot that part which 

 is not occupied by buildings. Too often this part 

 of the yard is made the depository of garbage 

 and useless trash of all kinds. 



Such accumulations are unsightly and unsani- 

 tary. The Sandwich System herein described is 

 not an idle theory but a successful, solid fact, the 

 result of six years of careful, painstaking experi- 

 ments, and highly successful efforts in practical 

 vegetable growing. 



This peculiar method was first suggested by 

 noticing the marvelous growth of weeds, etc., 

 about the base of an old, decaying strawheap, 

 where some stable manure had been dumped on a 

 thin layer of straw. On this more straw was 

 scratched down by poultry. Lastly on top a few 



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