THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



insures a great variety of vegetables at the mini- 

 mum amount of work and outlay. Possibly your 

 neighbour's land is a little wet and low and well 

 adapted to the growing of cabbage and cauli- 

 flowers, while yours may be a warm, sandy loam, 

 especially suited to grow melons, or you may have 

 turned under a piece of sod land which is not suffi- 

 ciently tractable for growing root crops or those 

 needing close cultivation, but will do admirably 

 for corn or potatoes, while his ground may have 

 been in cultivation for years and in so fine a state 

 of tilth as to answer admirably for onions, radishes, 

 lettuce, and the like. 



Again, your neighbour may have a horse and 

 be able to do the greater part of his work with it, 

 while your ground must be cultivated by hand; it 

 will then pay best if he shall undertake the grow- 

 ing of larger crops, which may best be handled 

 with a horse cultivator. Corn, cabbage, cauli- 

 flowers, potatoes, and such vegetables, which are 

 usually planted three feet apart, may be worked 

 to advantage this way, while the smaller vegeta- 

 bles carrots, onions, peas, parsnips, and tomatoes, 

 which sprawl so that it is difficult to work among 

 them with a horse after they have made much 



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