The Vegetable Garden 



The villa garden is usually so small an affair 

 that the gardener, who loves his flowers and 

 desires to achieve a completely artistic general 

 effect in his garden, will, in most cases, be out 

 of sympathy with the more prosaic details of 

 vegetable culture, and in consequence he will 

 give up no part of his limited domain to a 

 purpose which, at best, yields him but a few 

 sickly cabbages and pot herbs. Hence I have 

 considered it as almost outside the scheme of 

 this book to deal at length with the vegetable 

 garden. 



Still, for the benefit of the few gardeners 

 who are more bountifully blessed in the matter 

 of square yards than the average, and who, in 

 spite of their loyalty to their flowers, cherish 

 also a sneaking regard for the home-grown 

 vegetable, I may offer a few remarks on the 



vegetable garden in its relation to the general 



58 



