THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



lot it is always, to the family, at least, in evidence, 

 and should be made as attractive as possible. This 

 may best be achieved by planting the more orna- 

 mental vegetables in front and relegating the tall- 

 est and the least ornamental to the rear. 



On the limited area of a village lot it will not 

 be expedient to grow vegetables which require so 

 large an amount of room as pumpkins, squash, and 

 melons, but room should be found for a hill or 

 two of cucumbers in order that one may possess 

 these appetising fruits at their best. I have grown 

 very good cucumbers and melons, too, by the 

 way on the hen-park fence, thus not only pro- 

 ducing a crop from a strip of land not readily 

 available for other purposes but affording some 

 useful shade for the poultry yard. A post or two 

 set anywhere convenient, with a length of netting 

 stretched from post to post, may take the place of 

 the fence, or they may be grown against the side 

 of a building. 



The growing of this class of vegetables on net- 

 ting is perfectly rational; Nature has provided the 

 vines with clinging tendrils and evidently intended 

 them to be used. The stems of all of this class of 

 plants are quite strong enough to support the fruit 



