24 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



SITUATION AND LAYING-OUT. It is not always that 

 choice can be made in the situation of or aspect of 

 the ground ; but whenever it can be made, a level 

 spot should be selected, but if there be any slope, 

 let it be to the south. Shelter is of great impor- 

 tance in producing early crops, and if a position can 

 be found where the wind is broken off by woods or hills 

 to the north or northwest, such a situation would 

 be very desirable. In the absence of this we find it 

 necessary to protect, at least, our forcing and fram- 

 ing grounds, with high board fences, or, better yet, 

 belts of Norway spruce. The most convenient shape 

 of the garden is a square or oblong form ; if square, 

 a road twelve feet wide should be made through the 

 center, intersected by another road of similar width ; 

 but if oblong, one road of the same width running 

 through the center in a plot of ten acres will be suf- 

 ficient. 



VEGETABLE HOUSE, WELLS, ETC. Connected with 

 every market garden is a vegetable house, usually 

 about twenty-five feet square, having a frost-proof 

 cellar, over which is the vegetable or washing house. 

 In the second story is a loft for seeds, storage, etc. 

 Immediately outside the vegetable house is the well, 

 from which the water is pumped to a tub in one cor- 

 ner of the building, on each side of which are erected 

 benches of convenient height, on which the workmen 

 tie and wash the vegetables preparatory to sending 

 them to market. 



