June 19, 1889.] 



Garden and Forest. 



293 



(Henderson) is the best all-purpose Spinach I have tried. 

 As fast as the early Peas, Beans, Corn, Radishes, Beets, Let- 

 tuce, Onions and Potatoes mature fill the spaces with later 

 crops ; this keeps the weeds down, the garden full, and the 

 table well supplied at a time when the average garden is 

 empty or over-run with weeds. 



W. Springfield, Mass. 



IV. H. Bull. 



the growth of fine fruit. The nurserymen offer potted plants 

 at such reasonable figures that it is a matter of small ex- 

 pense to renew a bed annually. The best plan is to have 

 two beds continually ; one planted in autumn and bearing its 

 first small crop, and another with its best crop of the second 

 year. The latter is to be plowed or spaded under as soon as 

 the fruit is off, thus furnishing the best place for the crop of 



Fig. 114. — Syringa Japonica in the Arnold Arboretum. — See page 291 



Strawberries. 

 S soon as the frtiit is gathered clean out the Strawberry 



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-^^^ beds and cultivate thoroughly. If plants are wanted, a 

 portion of the bed should be specially reserved for this pur- 

 pose, but the fruiting-bed should be kept scrupulously clear 

 from runners. In small gardens it seldom pays to raise 

 plants, since this interferes with the neatness of the beds and 



winter Cabbages or Savoys. Then on some other vacant spot 

 plant, about the first of September, another bed of Strawber- 

 ries with strong, potted plants. In raising these potted 

 plants I have abandoned the practice of layering the plants 

 in pots buried along the rows. This is tedious and la- 

 borious, and interferes with weeding. Many of the pots, 

 too, get buried and overlooked.. My plan is to make the 



