CONTENTS 



CHAPTER 11 — Continued 



PAOE 



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 . ... 3S 

 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 



