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dening. How much time, just at the very busiest 

 season of the whole year, such a table would have 

 saved ! 



The Planting Table prepared for one's own use 

 should show, besides the information given, the 

 varieties of each vegetable which experience has 

 proved best adapted to one's own needs. The table 

 shown herewith gives such a list ; varieties which are 

 for the most part standard favorites and all of which, 

 with me, have proven reliable, productive and of 

 good quality. Other good sorts will be found de- 

 scribed in Part Two, pages 141 to 157. Such a table 

 should be mounted on cardboard and kept where it 

 may readily be referred to at planting time. 



The Check List is the counterpart of the planting 

 table, so arranged that its use will prevent anything 

 from being overlooked or left until too late. Prepare 

 it ahead, some time in January, when you have time 

 to think of everything. Make it up from your 

 planting table and from the previous year's record. 

 From this list (see page 23) it will be well to put 

 down on a sheet of paper the things to be done each 

 month (or week) and cross them ofif as they are at- 

 tended to. Without some such system it is almost 

 a certainty that you will overlook some important 

 things. 



The Garden Record is no less important. It may 

 be kept in the simplest sort of way, but be sure to 



