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ceeding season, it is merely necessary in 

 the spring to cut back the tips of the 

 growth about one quarter, also removing 

 any side shoots. Canes that were dot 

 touched after fruiting last year would re- 

 quire similarly cutting back, although they 

 will not have made so strong a growth. 



Currants anil gooseberries are very 

 similar in their requirements — a good 

 thinning out of all old wood that has be- 

 come too old to bear with freedom. If 

 this is attended to yearly very little other 

 pruning will be necessary. In removing 



old wood from these two bush fruits, cut 

 right to the ground and give the preference 



Leaf buds, long and slender (bare hand). Fruit 

 buds are short and stout (gloved hand) 



to the young growth that you will notice 

 pushing its way up through the centre. 

 Any wood that has lost its brightness and 

 is a dull dead color at the base had best 

 be removed. If, however, the bushes have 

 been neglected for several years it would 

 not be advisable to cut back all the old 

 wood in one season. If you did so you 

 probably would not have any bush left. 

 In such a case, cut out one half the old 

 shoots one season and the balance the 

 next. A new lot of young canes will 

 spring up to take their places. 



Sowing Vegetables for Succession - By I. M. Angell, ? 



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A PRACTICAL SCHEME FOR MAKING THE MOST OF A SMALL PLOT, AND KEEPING THE TABLE SUP- 

 PLIED WITH FRESH VEGETABLES ALL THE SEASON — USING THE SAME SPACE THREE TIMES OVER 



MAKING one and the same small 

 garden plot serve for three succes- 

 sive gardens in the one year — sowing 

 at three different times — was one of the 

 best gardening experiences we have had. 

 It showed the possibilities of "intensive" 

 culture on city lots, and gave us really 

 fresh young vegetables all one season 

 ■while laying the foundation for several 

 crops in the next — that is the third 

 sowing was designed to relieve the usual 

 spring rush and actually gave us results 

 ahead of the same things sown in earliest 

 spring. 



The spring sowings had yielded their 

 full, or at least were past their best by 

 August first. After re-fertilizing and dig- 

 ging, the midsummer garden was sowed, 

 from which we gathered some fine 

 vegetables when neighboring gardens were 

 on the wane. The second harvest out of 

 the way by the middle of October, the 

 ground was manured and dug for fall 

 sowings. 



satisfactory. Here follow the details of 

 each crop: 



Peas — a first early and two second 

 early varieties were sown at different times, 

 from the end of March to the first of May. 

 All were out of the way before the first of 

 August. 



Potatoes — A very early variety was 

 planted the end of March and dug at 

 intervals from the end of June to the end 

 of July. These would have been consid- 

 ered rather small, perhaps, but were very 

 acceptable, coming while new potatoes 

 were almost a luxury. 



Radishes — Sown at various times up 

 to the middle of June. All were out of 

 the way before the ground was wanted for 

 a second planting. 



Carrots — Sown early in April and pro- 

 duced tender young roots from the second 

 week in June until the end of July. 



Chard — Provided greens, from an early 

 April sowing, which supplied the table 



from the middle of June until time to 

 replant the plot in August. 



Beets — Sown the second week in April, 

 they attained the size of plums before the 

 middle of June and by the end of July all 

 had been used. A sowing made as late 

 as May 2d produced roots of cookable 

 size for a month before the ground was 

 required for midsummer seeding. 



Lettuce — A sowing made the second 

 week in April yielded heads of good size 

 from the middle of June to the middle of 

 July. Even the May 16th sowing was out 

 of the way before the end of July. 



Onions — Seeds were sown on April 

 first. By the end of July they had formed 

 fine young onions an inch thick. These 

 were all pulled to use as scallions. Sets 

 planted April 1st were pulled from the end 

 of May to the end of July. 



Kohlrabi, began yielding the third week 

 in June and kept up the supply for more 

 than a month. This was sown April first. 



THE SPRING SEEDING 



The most important seeds in garden 

 number one were those that entirely out- 

 lived their usefulness before the end of 

 July, because from those we received the 

 full value of our time and money, but the 

 others which were pulled up while still 

 in bearing (to make room for the later 

 sowings) gave enough return to make it 

 worth while to sow. In the former class 

 were extra early potatoes, peas, lettuce, 

 kohlrabi, radishes, extra early corn, chard 

 (sowed for greens only), onion sets (sowed 

 to use small), carrots and beets (also to 

 use small). 



Those that were removed while bearing 

 included cucumbers, parsley, and bush 

 string beans. Although carrots, beets, 

 onions, and chard would have continued 

 in good condition if left in the ground, we 

 place them in the first fist for the reason 

 that they had such excellent qualities 

 when used while very small, that after a 

 trial there were few left to clear off when 

 August arrived. Spinach and turnips 

 would probably have been found equally 



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This is the garden in August after having yielded its first crops. Plan for succession this year 



