XIV 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



February, 1907 



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to the location of small fruits, like the cur- 

 rant, and the gooseberry, and the grape. These 

 should be given a place in all gardens, if pos- 

 sible to do so, but they should be kept entirely 

 apart from all one-season plants. 



What vegetables should the beginner in 

 gardening to attempt the cultivation of? 

 That would depend largely on the garden. 

 If of sufficient size to warrant it, plant all the 

 standard sorts, in small quantities. Do this 

 as an experiment, with a view to finding out 

 what the place is best adapted for. Some will 

 fail, perhaps. Some will reward your efforts 

 with a bountiful crop. Next season you will 

 know more about your garden than you do 

 this, and each season thereafter the element of 

 experiment will give place to a certainty born 

 of intelligent observation, and a growing 

 knowledge of conditions which every gardener 

 has to find out for himself. 



If the garden is a small one, I would advise 

 its owner to confine his selection of varieties 

 to such sorts as require but little room and 

 are generous in development, like lettuce, 

 for instance, which produces large quantities 

 on a tiny bit of ground ; or radishes, which 

 do not ask for much room ; or early onions, 

 which can stand thick in the row. A con- 

 sultation of the catalogues of the seedsmen 

 will enable you to select kinds which seem 

 best adapted to a concentrated form of 

 gardening. 



But don't attempt to grow radishes, lettuce, 

 or any other vegetable which must make quick 

 development in order to be satisfactory, in a 

 shady location, or on soil that will not re- 

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 favorable. 



Spinach, beets, and other vegetables used 

 as "greens," can be grown in fair quantities 

 on a small piece of ground. Indeed, those 

 having good-sized gardens will hardly care to 

 devote much space to their cultivation, for 

 they must be used while young and tender, 

 and large beds of them would grow many 

 more than the ordinary family would care 

 to use. 



A correspondent writes: "I am a green- 

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 know what varieties to get. The catalogues 

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My advice is this : Read the catalogues over 

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 certain varieties of vegetables in common ; 

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 meet the A'early demand. Each dealer will 

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 say about special varieties which he controls, 

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 the amateur gardener will do well to con- 

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 The special kinds which the dealers call your 

 attention to with such lavish use of adjectives, 

 mostly in the superlative degree, may be quite 

 as good as the old standard sorts — possibly 

 better — but that remains to be proved. You 

 will be wise in choosing the kinds about 

 whose merits there is no doubt. 



It is the same with flowers. Each year the 

 dealers make a great flourish of verbal 

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