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cultivation can be done by horse power as possible. 
But let me say right here, that no one should under¬ 
take the cultivation of a kitchen garden without 
being willing to do a reasonable portion of the work 
by hand. This part of the work can, however, be 
greatly lessened by using the various labor-saving 
garden implements, to be purchased at reasonable 
rates, of most seed firms. 
If “ variety is the spice of life/ 5 it can certainly 
nowhere be more desirable than in the kitchen 
garden, which is to supply our table with its yearly 
demand for choice vegetables; I say choice , since every 
one having the care of a garden should strive to grow 
everything of the very best, and that, too, in great 
abundance and variety. 
The most convenient mode of arranging the 
different kinds of vegetables is to; 1st, place the 
perennial plants in one bed, running the entire 
length of the ground ; 2d, Plant the vegetables side 
by side which are to remain out all winter, so as not 
to interfere with next spring’s plowing; 3d, Arrange 
side by side those varieties which require the whole 
season to mature; and, 4th, put beside each other 
the quickly maturing kinds, which may be succeeded 
by other varieties, in order that the ground to be 
occupied by a second crop may be all in one piece. 
The preliminaries being arranged, we are now 
ready to go into details, and to this end we shall first 
take under consideration the permanent bed, so called 
from the fact that it is to contain such perennials as 
asparagus, rhubarb, horse radish, artichoke, and 
