Sete AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS March, 1909 
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MAKING A COUNTRY HOME 
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are produced. It certainly is unnecessary to 
grow this delicious vegetable with only an 
inch or two of edible tips. For pieplant you 
can take either Linneus or Victoria—Mam- 
moth is perhaps a little larger than Victoria, 
but neither of them are quite as rich flavored 
as Linneus. Everyone will need also a few 
herbs, according to his taste, and he will need 
parsley for garnishing. My choice among the 
herbs are sage and summer savory, the latter 
being a real addition to meats and soups. One 
or two pepper plants will be quite enough in 
any garden, but they are needed both for 
beauty and use. 
In a Southern garden we come first of all 
upon sweet potatoes and cassava; although we 
grow in Florida every one of our Northern 
vegetables, in perfection—only we have to 
employ more mulch, and can never forget 
that the peas and potatoes are in more danger 
from heat than from cold. Sweet potatoes we 
plant in furrows filled with compost and cov- 
ered with soil, so as to make ridges. ‘This is 
the old Cracker way, and it is the best. Cas- 
sava is a beautiful plant standing four or five 
feet high, while the roots are tubers from one 
to three feet long. We also make much of 
eggplant and okra, both of which like a warm, 
sandy soil. 
The vegetable garden should be a source of 
intellectual as well as bodily comfort, and 
should be as beautiful as a flower garden. In 
fact a good many of the vegetables, like curled 
leaved parsley, and some of the beets and car- 
rots, have exquisite foliage. The vegetable 
garden also opens a splendid field for com- 
petitive tests. Growing two or three sorts 
side by side gives zest to the work, especially 
if the sorts are of your own producing. Then 
you run across a lot of problems as to the rela- 
tive digestibility of different sorts of peas and 
beans and potatoes. You must learn to grow 
only the best things, and do it in the best 
manner. The vegetable garden affords an 
historical evolution collateral to that in the 
small fruit garden. Better sorts are created 
every year. Mr. Burbank began his career 
with the Burbank potato. As an economic 
problem the vegetable garden will give you 
about one-half of your living, and nearly the 
whole of it, if you have milk and eggs and 
butter and honey, and a wife who knows how 
to knead good-will and health into her bread. 
There is a lot in cooking, especially in cooking 
vegetables. You will need very little meat if 
you have a good garden, and you will be the 
better without it. I brought up my young 
folk meatless until they were seven years of 
age; then gave them their choice, but they all 
rejected it—yet they are stout, wholesome and 
intellectual. 
NORWEGIAN TAPESTRY 
Mrs. Oskar von Irgens Bergh desires us to 
state that the Norwegian tapestries illus- 
trated in AMERICAN HomMES AND GARDENS. 
for December, 1908, and which are referred 
to as having been woven by her, were both de- 
signed and woven by Madame Frida Koehler- 
Hansen, of Christiania, Norway. ‘The latter, 
in the text, is referred to as the designer alone. 
—EDITor. 
