204 Home Vegetable Gardening 



timely death by children, careless workmen, and 

 other animals. 



So if you can put a twelve-month curb on your 

 impatience, get one-year trees and set them out in 

 a straight row right in your vegetable garden w^here 

 they will take up very little room. Keep them culti- 

 vated just as thoroughly as the rest of your growing- 

 things. Melons, or beans, or almost any low- 

 growang vegetable can be grown close beside them. 



If you want your garden to pay for your whole 

 lot of fruit trees this season dig up a hole about' 

 three feet in diameter wherever a tree is to go per- 

 manently. Cut the sod up fine and work in four 

 or five good forkfuls of well rotted manure, and on 

 these places, when it is warm enough, plant a hill 

 of lima pole-beans — the new^ sort named Giant- 

 podded Pole Lima is the best I have yet seen. Place 

 a stout pole, eight to ten feet high, firmly in each 

 hole. Good lima beans are always in demand, and 

 bring high prices. 



Let us suppose that your trees are at hand, either 

 direct from the nursery or growing in the garden. 

 You have selected, if possible, a moist, gravelly 

 loam on a slope or slight elevation, where it is nat- 

 urally and perfectly drained. Good soil drainage 

 is imperative. Coarse gravel in the bottom of the 

 planting hole will help out temporarily. If the land 

 is in clover sod, it will have the ideal preparation, 



