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INTENSIVE CULTIVATION 



\ NY garden in which every square foot of ground is 

 ** utilized to best advantage is really a good example 

 of intensive cultivation. The several phases of gardening 

 that stand for intensive cultivation are i, a careful 

 planning ahead of time which crops should follow each 

 other in one and the same row; 2, the proper use of 

 space between rows of late vegetables for quickly matur- 

 ing crops early in the season and 3, the sowing, at one 

 and the same time, of several kinds of vegetable seeds 

 in one and the same row. 



The last named is difficult to practice and requires 

 the knowledge and experience of a trained gardener. 

 The other two are largely a matter of applying common 

 sense and of putting to a test such theories as every home 

 gardener forms from season to season. References will 

 be found throughout this book as to the vegetables that 

 lend themselves readily to the different kinds of intensive 

 cultivation. 



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