Planning the Garden 



and knees and reach out at arm's length. In 

 very small gardens this may be as good an 

 arrangement as any, because beds there will 

 be narrow and less difficult to get at, but in 

 gardens of ordinary size beds are no longer con- 

 sidered advisable, for more reasons than one. 

 They waste space, because paths must be left 

 between them; they give short rows, w^hich 

 necessitate much more w^ork in cultivating 

 than the long rows which do away with fre- 

 quent turns for the adjustment of the cultiva- 

 tor ; and they prevent the gardener from doing 

 as thorough work, because there is not the 

 same chance to do it in a five- or six-foot row 

 that there is in a long one where the action of 

 the cultivator is not constantly interrupted. 

 Of course beds can be kept as free from weeds 

 as long rows can, but the point is it will require 

 a good deal more work to do so, and what I am 

 aiming at in this little book, is to so encourage 

 the systematization of matters that work will 

 be reduced to the minimum, because I am well 

 aware that the less drudgery there is connected 

 with garden-work the more gardens there will 

 likely be. 



Another argument for long-row planting is 



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