A-B-C OF VEGETABLE GARDENING 



foliage, and all parts where insects and other 

 enemies might hide away and escape con- 

 tact with the infusion used. 



When the small-fruit plants in your garden 

 show evidence of having outlived their use- 

 fulness, don't try to renew them, but dig 

 them up and plant new ones. You cannot 

 make a satisfactory plant out of one that 

 has begun to show age. It is a good plan to 

 set a few new plants each season. If this is 

 done there need be no gap in the fruit-supply, 

 as there will always be some coming on to 

 take the places of those whose days of use- 

 fulness are over. Too often we neglect our 

 gardens until they are in such a debilitated 

 condition that we get but slight returns 

 from them, and then we set to work to 

 make them all over, and in this way we 

 fail to get as much out of them as we ought 

 to. By planting something each season we 

 keep them up to bearing-point, and have no 

 ^^off seasons.'^ 



I wonder how many housewives who may 

 read this little book have ever dried sweet- 

 corn for winter use. Not many, I think. 

 But if they were to do so one season I am 



quite confident that thereafter they would 



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