454 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
this informal character of the home-gardens in many Euro- 
pean countries, a type of planting that arises from the necessity 
of making the most of every inch of land. It was the writer’s 
pleasure to look over the fence of a Bavarian peasant’s garden 
and to see, on a space about 40 feet by 100 feet in area, a 
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294. A family kitchen-garden. 
delightful medley of onions, pole beans, peonies, celery, balsams, 
gooseberries, coleus, cabbages, sunflowers, beets, poppies, cu- 
cumbers, morning-glories, kohl-rabi, verbenas, bush beans, 
pinks, stocks, currants, wormwood, parsley, carrots, kale, peren- 
nial phlox, nasturtiums, feverfew, lettuce, lilies ! 
Vegetables for six (by C. E. Hunn). 
A home vegetable-garden for a family of six would require, 
exclusive of potatoes, a space not over 100 by 150 feet. Be- 
ginning at one side of the garden and running the rows the 
