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case the strawberries are set the year before the suc- 

 cession-crop is grown. A crop of rhubarb or aspara- 

 gus may be followed, when the crop is finally turned 

 under, by a short -season crop, thereby allowing the 

 cutting of the asparagus or rhubarb during its last 

 season. It is usually best to follow a perennial crop 

 with an annual one. When the succession -cropping 

 extends into general farm operations, one or two 

 entire seasons may be covered by each crop in the 

 series. In this case we have a true rotation of crops, 

 as that term is understood by most agricultural 

 writers. The value of rotation in the vegetable- 

 garden, by means of which lands are rested in clover 

 or other sod crops, has already been discussed 

 (Chapter III). 



FoUowing are examples of succession- crops : 



Strawberries, foUowed by main-crop cabbage or late potatoes. 

 Peas, followed by cabbage, beans, tomatoes or celery. 

 Onions, beans, early beets, summer squash by kale, turnip, 



kohlrabi, winter radish. 

 Spring spinach, by beans and tomatoes. 

 Radish and bunch onions by early cabbage or celery. 

 Lettuce, by beans and tomatoes. 



Early carrots, by autumn spinach, kale, turnip, winter radish. 

 Early potatoes, followed by fall cauliflower or turnips. 

 Cucumber, by spinach, kale, turnip, winter radish. 

 Early sugar corn, by second crop of same or autumn spinach, 



beans, tomatoes, celery. 

 Early cabbage, followed by late beans (for canning), or by 



horse-radish. 

 Dandelions by potatoes. 

 Fall-sown spinach by strawberries. 

 Kale, followed by potatoes or other main- season crop. 



