THE FAMILY GARDEN 



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100 Ft. 



fruits as may be desired, but about the following dis- 

 tances should be observed in planting. Fig. 39 illus- 

 trates a larger mixed garden of fruits and vegetables. 

 On the left is a large asparagus patch, and on the 

 right, plum trees and currant bushes, while in the 

 middle are turnips, beets, and carrots, all in long rows 

 so that the work of cultivating can be done largely by 

 the horse. 



Many experience difficulty in 

 growing vegetables among trees, 

 but planted at the distance 

 given on the above plan it will 

 be many years before the trees 

 will give shade enough to injure 

 these crops, and by the rotation 

 of crops or change of fertilizer 

 crops should succeed and trees 

 be kept in good condition. The 

 continued use of large quanti- 

 ties of stable manure alone often 

 results in a sour and unhealthful 

 condition of the ' soil that must 

 be remedied by the use of lime 

 (air slacked) , hard wood ashes, 

 or slag phosphate, once in three to five years. 



To supplement and make stable manure a complete 

 fertilizer, sulphate of potash and slag phosphate twenty- 

 five to thirty-five pounds of the former to fifty to seventy 

 pounds of the latter may be added to each cord of 

 manure. This may be mixed with the manure before 

 spreading or be sown upon the land before the manure is 

 worked in. Land among fruit trees should not be heav- 

 ily manured unless the trees are bearing a heavy crop of 

 fruit or the ground under them is closely occupied with 

 other crops. One of the most common causes of failure 



FIG. 38 Plan of a Garden of 

 Fruit and Vegetables. 



