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13. The author's garden, showing the windbreak 

 at the northwest, the perennial crops at one side as 

 far as possible, and a big space free for plowing 



"yeast cakes," as we call them, so there is 

 no outgo but a postage stamp's value, and 

 the returns are great indeed. 



I tell you what I think I will do. When 

 our garden is run out and has to be sown 

 with legumes (that's what they call these 

 doctor plants), I will ask my neighbors to let 

 me raise all the peas the entire community 

 needs that year, and I will sow the whole 

 garden to "vaccinated" peas and supply the 

 neighborhood ; then the plants can be plowed 

 under in the autumn. Try this, and the fol- 

 lowing spring sow bone meal and wood ashes, 

 and a little lime if the soil has not had any 

 for three or four years, and the vegetables of 

 that season will say "thank you" so hard 

 you will be able to carry off all the first 

 prizes at the County Fair. (Fig. 1 5 .) 



THE ADVANTAGES OF A COMPOST HEAP 



Suppose you have a new place where there 

 never has been a garden. Choose your gar- 

 den spot carefully, have it plowed up and 

 harrowed, take out all the sod you can — but 

 don't, I beg of you, throw it away, for it is 

 better than a gold mine. Take the sod to 

 some out-of-the-way corner of the place, 

 turn it root-side up and leave it. I can hear 

 you say "I have no out-of-the-way place, 

 and it would look so terrible here all sum- 

 mer." Never mind. Wait a bit. We will 

 fix that in a satisfactory way to a surety. 

 Keep the good work up by throwing the 

 waste leaves of cabbage, lettuce, beets, out- 

 side stalks of celery, potato tops, bean, pea, 

 and tomato vines upon the pile. It is easy, 

 with the compost heap near the garden, to 

 throw all this valuable material where it will 



do the most good, and while keeping the 

 garden looking neat you are adding heavily 

 to your working capital and disposing of 

 rubbish at less expense than in any other 

 way. Throw the autumn leaves on it, also 

 waste from the kitchen, if you have no chick- 

 ens that will turn it to good account. Turn 

 'the heap over in the spring, sow a few 

 morning-glory, nasturtium, or wild cucum- 

 ber seed in and around the pile, and you will 

 have a thing of beauty and a joy all summer. 

 When the sods are rotted they are the finest 

 kind of fertilizer, for they are the substance 

 of the soil for years and years, and you are 

 returning now the bulk of that which has been 

 taken away as long as those particular sods 

 have been growing. 



Why can't you leave them in the garden ? 

 Because they will grow if they get the faintest 

 chance, and you will be busier pulling up 

 grass than you care to be that first year, and 

 remember that a good compost heap cannot 

 be overvalued. 



SMALL FRUITS 



Let us take up small fruits for a moment, 

 for no garden is complete without them. 

 Blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries and 

 wineberries are all "prickery," as the chil- 

 dren call them, and should have a place to 

 themselves, for it is very annoying, as well 

 as mildly painful, to gather or to cultivate 

 vegetables in close proximity to the thorns. 

 I think it wise to give them a place all to 

 themselves, somewhere else in the grounds, or, 

 if territory be limited, plant them as the 

 border to the vegetable garden. If your 

 garden is inclosed by a fence, this opens up 

 excellent possibilities, for a fence is a support 

 and training-ground for your blackberries, 

 raspberries and wineberries. Moreover, they 

 should have a fence to keep them in good 



shape and within bounds anyhow. So if you 

 do not care to use this inclosing medium for 

 peas, beans and tomatoes, by all means train 

 berry vines upon it. 



The loviWgrowing, virtually evergreen straw- 

 berries, with their beautifully formed leaves, 

 are in some respects very human, their chil- 



14. A suggestion for a Japanese or radial garden, 

 in which the vegetables are to be carefully con* 

 sidered as to color, height and decorative value 



dren (the runners) are always moving away 

 and making new homes for themselves; 

 also relying on the good mother plant for 

 guidance and support, which she supplies 

 through the leading - string. This luscious 

 berry should always have a bed by itself. 

 Give to it as much ground as you can afford 

 to spare, to allow the plants to remain there 

 two years; at the end of that time, take the 

 runners you have coaxed to take root in small 

 pots buried in the ground close by, and start 

 a new bed in an entirely different portion cf 



15. Prize vegetables at a county fair. The products of a friendly neighborhood rivalry 



