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used in the same way in place of the cucumbers. Bed 

 No. X. is for potatoes that have been forced in the 

 house. Bed No. XI. is for the first planting of peas, 

 ten rows. No. XII. may be used for onion sets, six 

 rows, and No. XIII. will carry early turnips, six rows. 

 Bed No. XIV. is to be kept about ten days^ for the 

 second planting of peas. The little square at the 

 north end of the plot is a seed bed for celery. 



In sketching out in winter such a plan of work for 

 the summer, you must look beyond the early spring 

 and arrange for the crops that are to follow the early 

 spring plants. With this is a plan of the same garden, 

 showing what should follow in the various beds. 



For instance, bed No. I. may be followed by late 

 sweet corn as soon as the peas are gathered. Bed 

 No. II., in like manner, may be used for the second 

 planting of sweet corn, the beets to be consumed as 

 soon as half grown. The little bed of celery plants 

 is to be cleared out before the tomatoes begin to 

 crowd them, and the young plants moved to beds III. 

 and IV. The tomato plants are shown in a row at 

 the upper end of the lot. There will be ample room 

 to get them in there, and if not, you can well afford 

 to sacrifice a plant or two of the first crops in beds 

 Nos. I., VI. and XI. All the beds are plainly marked 

 with the second crops, and you will find it well worth 

 while to compare the two plans, as they show how 

 crops may be made to " lap " and how to get the 

 greatest possible return from the ground. 



My own garden was of a somewhat different shape, 

 yet I made careful sketches of the proposed crops, 

 and in the summer of 1888 actually carried out, with 

 some varieties, the succession of crops shown on these 

 two diagrams. 



