A-B-C OF VEGETABLE GARDENING 



preferable to the ordinary cellar, by con- 

 structing what might be called above-ground 

 pits, for want of a better name. Build up a 

 wall four or five feet high, and bank up about 

 it with so much earth that frost cannot pene- 

 trate it. Cover with a roof that will keep out 

 cold and rain. Have a doorway opening into 

 it from an entry built after the fashion of the 

 little storm-vestibules we put over the front 

 doors of our dwellings in winter. In other 

 words, an entry into which we can step and 

 close one door behind us before we open the 

 one that lets us into the place Vv^here our 

 vegetables are. Such a room can be con- 

 structed with but little expense. Because of 

 its being above ground it will be drier than 

 a cellar, and in the majority of cases it will 

 be more convenient to get at. It should be 

 boarded up with a good quality of matched 

 boarding, and its walls should be lined with 

 two or three thicknesses of sheathing paper 

 put on in such a manner as to show no cracks 

 or openings. 



The best place for a vegetable-garden is 

 where the soil is naturally well drained and 

 where there is a slope to the south. Such a 

 slope enables it to get the full benefit of sun- 

 shine, and sunshine, it will be found, is an 



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