GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
instead. Pests must be watched for on all the crops, 
and treated according to the special needs of each 
variety when whale-oil, soapsuds, tobacco dust or 
insect powder seem ineffective. Then with weed- 
ing, and reasonable care, you can safely expect to 
keep your table supplied with that greatest of all 
luxuries,—your own green vegetables, fresh from 
the soil. 
VEGETABLE GUIDE 
Beans. Bush 
Plant from early May on, every two weeks, for 
succession of crops. Drop beans 3 in. apart, in 
2-in. deep drills, allowing 2 ft. between rows. Hoe 
often, drawing the earth up towards the roots. Be 
sure that the ground is warm and dry before plant- 
ing, however, or the beans will rot. 
Beans. Pole 
Set stakes 5 to 8 feet high, in rows 3 ft. apart 
each way; or plant in drills to grow on a trellis. 
Put four or five beans around each stake, and when 
well started, thin out the poorest, leaving but three 
at each pole. A cheap trellis is made by stretching 
two wires (one near the ground and the other six 
feet above), and connecting them with stout twine 
for the vines to run on. 
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