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"too many cooks." The work was not attended by 

 any excess of encouragement, either, for when the 

 plan of a cooperative garden worked by three 

 neighbors was broached to an advising authority, 

 he pessimistically prophesied a breach in the 

 friendly relations between the three before the season 

 was over. How far this was from the actual re- 

 sults, can be inferred from the following: 



"In the spring of 1907 we secured, rent free, two 

 lots, measuring altogether 70 x 125 feet, located close 

 to our respective homes. After clearing the ground 

 of an accumulation of ashes, tin cans and other 

 rubbish, the ground was plowed, harrowed and 

 fenced on three sides. The fence was made of 

 2 X 4s and 4-foot chicken wire. On the fourth side 

 was a neighbor's fence. 



"My two associates knew absolutely nothing 

 about gardening, so that the directing and planning 

 fell upon my shoulders. By the aid of The Garden 

 Magazine a complete plan of the whole garden was 

 drawn to scale and the times of the various plantings 

 marked. The lot faced the east, so the rows were 

 run north and south, the tall growing vegetables 

 being kept at the back, the shorter ones next, then 

 a narrow flower bed and a grass plot seeded in front 

 the same depth as the neighbors' lawns. The wire 

 fence came only as far as the grass, and was on a 

 line with the front of the houses on the street.^ A 

 clump of Golden Glow roots was planted by each 

 post all around the garden. 



"The grass plot in front, the narrow strip of 

 annuals, the clumps of Golden Glow around the 



