A-B-C OF VEGETABLE GARDENING 



son he will not be likely to ask or need advice, 

 for the practical knowledge which comes with 

 one season's work among vegetables will not 

 only be sufficient to enable him to go on with 

 his gardening operations on his own respon- 

 sibility, but it will have made him so en- 

 thusiastic over them that he will be eager to 

 enlarge his knowledge of ^'the green things 

 growing/' and in doing this he will find a 

 pleasure that will make him wonder how he 

 ever came to consider gardening something 

 to dread. 



Others, who have but a small piece of land, 

 may think it not worth w^hile to attempt to 

 grow vegetables on it. They labor under the 

 impression that a garden, in order to prove 

 a success, requires more land than is at their 

 disposal. Here is where they make a mistake. 

 Of course one cannot grow a large quantity 

 of vegetables on a small piece of ground, but 

 the one who undertakes to make the most of 

 a small piece will be surprised at the amount 

 that can be grown on it. In a garden that 

 is not more than twenty-five feet square a 

 friend of mine grows all the summer vege- 

 tables required by his family of four persons. 

 This calls for what the scientific people call 

 ^ intensive gardening,'' and makes it nec- 

 essary to plant and plan for a succession of 



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