CONTENTS 



CHAPTER II Continued 



PACK 



The Two Greatest Garden Problems and Their 



Solution 34 



Double the Usefulness of the Clothes Pole and 



Beautify It 34 



A Welcome for Poultry in the Garden 35 



The Secret of Successful Gardens 36 



Commercial Methods Worth Copying .... 37 



Overtime Growth in the Strawberry Bed ... 38 

 Barrels of Strawberries ! Doing Away with Plowing, 



Cultivating and Mulching 39 



CHAPTER III 



SUCCESSFUL GARDENS You CAN HAVE 43 



Twelve Hundred Per Cent. Profit from 20 x 27 feet 



of Ground 43 



Bean-strings Cheaper and Simpler than Poles . . 46 

 Expenses One Dollar, minus; Returns, Fourteen 



Dollars, plus! 48 



What Science Has Done for the Gardener ... 49 



The Redemption of a 28-foot Square Back Yard . 49 



What the Square Yielded 53 



What One Woman Can Do With Ten Dollars . . 54 



Suggestions Worth Money 58 



A Practical Working Calendar .... -59 



Tales of Three Gardens and Three Hundred Dollars 64 



What the Man "Without Any Time" Can Do . . 64 



A New Chapter in the "Book of Friendship" . . 65 



Transplanting One Way to Save Space ... 68 



A Ten-Minutes-A-Day Garden 68 



Five Crops on One Foot of Ground 70 



What Your Garden Can Grow 73 



Combining Succession and Rotation 79 



Exploring the Unknown A Plea for Unfamiliar 



Vegetables 85 



Boys and Girls and Gardens 85 



A Fourteen- Year-Old Boy's Garden That Produced 



Seventy Dollars 86 



The Thorough Gardener and His Reward ... 90 



