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MANUAL OF GARDENING 



this informal character of the home-gardens in many Euro- 

 pean countries, a type of planting that arises from the necessity 

 of making the most of every inch of land. It was the writer's 

 pleasure to look over the fence of a Bavarian peasant's garden 

 and to see, on a space about 40 feet by 100 feet in area, a 



294. A family kitchen-garden. 



dehghtful medley of onions, pole beans, peonies, celery, balsams, 

 gooseberries, coleus, cabbages, sunflowers, beets, poppies, cu- 

 cumbers, morning-glories, kohl-rabi, verbenas, bush beans, 

 pinks, stocks, currants, wormwood, parsley, carrots, kale, peren- 

 nial phlox, nasturtiums, feverfew, lettuce, lilies ! 



Vegetables for six (by C. E. Hunn). 



A home vegetable-garden for a family of six would require, 

 exclusive of potatoes, a space not over 100 by 150 feet. Be- 

 ginning at one side of the garden and running the rows the 



