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row, without damaging the plants at the ends of 
the rows by trampling and dragging the cultivator 
over them. 
In winter, while there is plenty of time before the 
spring opens, the summer campaign should be 
planned—what vegetables are to be raised and 
what quantity of each will be needed, in what part 
of the garden it will be best to plant each variety so 
that the pollen from different members of the same 
family, such as cucumbers and cantaloupes, will not 
mix and spoil each other’s fine flavor. If the soil is 
of different quality in different parts of the garden, 
it should be planned so that the heavy and the lighter 
portions shall be occupied by such crops as will 
succeed best in the respective soils. 
Ease of cultivation and the rotation or succession 
of crops should also be considered. The small-grow¬ 
ing plants which require hand hoeing should be 
together, and likewise those which are to be worked 
with the horse cultivator. Where the ground is 
to bear two crops—one planted after the other has 
matured and been taken off—it will be of advantage 
to have such crops together, thus making larger plots 
for the replowing and a consequent saving of time 
and work. 
Beside these conditions in laying out a new gar¬ 
den, when it comes to the second or succeeding sea¬ 
sons, the crop or crops raised in the plot the year 
before must be taken into account. The situation of 
the crop of each particular vegetable should be 
moved to another part, as each draws certain propor¬ 
tions of the food elements from the soil, and those of 
