SOME COMMON GARDEN PLANTS 



AND 

 THEIR IMPROVEMENT 



HALF HOUR EXPERIMENTS WITH MANY PLANTS 



NOTWITHSTANDING the large number of 

 garden vegetables, all the common forms 

 fall into a few groups. 



Thus there is the great family of melons and 

 squashes, technically known as the gourd family, 

 which gives us such familiar vegetables as the 

 gourds and squashes, the pumpkin, the water- 

 melon, and muskmelon, and the cucumber. 



Then there are the cabbages of various types, 

 with which is botanically associated the turnip, 

 and with which the gardener will also associate 

 the familiar lettuce plant. 



Another group includes the familiar root vege- 

 tables, the carrot, parsnip, and radish. These have 

 a characteristic manner of growth, demand some- 

 what the same texture of loose, sandy soil, and 

 respond to the same treatment. 



In a quite different class are the peas and 



[VOLUME VII CHAPTER II] 



