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if you get a clear idea of the different groups or 

 types of vegetables. These consist of (i) the le- 

 gumes, or beans and peas; (2) the brassicas or 

 radish, turnip, cabbage, cauliflower and kales; (3) 

 the cucurbits or gourds, including squash, melon 

 and cucumber; (4) the leaf crops, lettuce, spinach, 

 endive, etc.; (5) the heat lovers such as tomatoes, 

 eggplant, peppers; (6) a few unrelated sorts includ- 

 ing celery, corn, beets, etc. Each of these groups 

 is likely to have a disease or an insect enemy of its 

 own, but these can usually be starved out by fur- 

 nishing only uncongenial food in the shape of 

 vegetables of another class. Moreover in new land, 

 such as you are likely to till in the backyard, insect 

 pests are uncommon and probably will not trouble 

 you. An excellent arrangement of this sort, as 

 well as a simple system for keeping track of it is 

 included in the management of another successful 

 garden, of which the chief features are worth citing. 



The garden will work overtime if you keep up a 

 quick succession of crops. The early maturing 

 kinds must be kept apart from those requiring the 

 whole season in which to mature, and the ground 

 replanted as the quick-growing crops come off. 

 If parsnips or salsify are planted with lettuce or 

 beets the plot is badly broken up when the latter 

 are harvested, so that it never has a neat appearance 

 through the year. 



Lettuce can be planted successionally in the same 

 ground, and the last crop will be just as good as the 

 first so long as the ground is kept fertile. It would 

 be foolish to plant turnips where radishes had been 



