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spinach was pulled and eaten before it troubled the 

 cabbage plants, and then tomato plants were set next 

 the fence and trained up against it, and before the 

 tomatoes were ripe the cabbage had headed and, 

 when pulled, left all the space for the tomato plants. 

 None of these crops seemed in the least degree in- 

 commoded by the others, nor did they fail to give 

 excellent returns three times during the season. In 

 ordinary garden planting the plants would have 

 been set in different places at a loss of space and 

 labor in caring for them. The ground occupied by 

 this experiment measured just 19x3 feet, and it pro- 

 duced two pecks of spinach, twenty heads of early 

 cabbage, and carried six large tomato plants that 

 produced a fair crop of tomatoes. It is only by this 

 system of close cropping that a handkerchief garden 

 can be made to pay large profits, and it is the only 

 plan I would ever employ in my own garden. If you 

 mean to garden at all, do it in this way and wring 

 from the ground all the return it can possibly give. 

 Make the garden tell. 



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