Chapter IV 



THE PLANTING PLAN 



HAVING selected the garden spot, the next 

 consideration, naturally, is what shall be 

 planted in it. 

 The old way was to get a few seed catalogues, 

 pick out a list of the vegetables most enthusias- 

 tically described by the (wholly disinterested) seeds- 

 man, and then, when the time came, to put them in 

 at one or two plantings, and sowing each kind as 

 far as the seed would go. There is a better way — a 

 way to make the garden produce more, to yield 

 things when you want them, and in the proper pro- 

 portions. 



All these advantages, you may suppose, must mean 

 more work. On the contrary, however, the new way 

 makes very much less work and makes results a hun- 

 dred per cent, more certain. It is not necessary even 

 that more thought be put upon the garden, but fore- 

 thought there must be. Forethought, however, is 

 much more satisfactory than hind-thought. 



In the new way of gardening there are four great 



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