July, 1922 
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Pipes laid underground and connected 
with concealed nozzles form an excellent 
system for lawns and open flower gar¬ 
dens. Courtesy John A. Brooks and 
Munn & Munz 
fact it gives better vegetables and more of them, 
finer flowers and in greater numbers, a lawn 
that can be depended upon, and a longer season 
even in normal years. 
Average crops are made better than the aver¬ 
age by the use of water. The color and foliage 
of flowers no less than the flavor of vegetables 
are improved by it. There are plenty of statis¬ 
tics to prove that statement. 
But statistics are dry things 
at the best, and this is a wet 
article. Every garden maker 
who has made the experiment, 
though, knows that he can get 
far more celery, far better 
tomatoes and far more certain 
crops of cauliflower and Brus¬ 
sels sprouts if he has an ample 
supply of water at his com¬ 
mand. He knows that grow¬ 
ing quality lettuce in hot 
weather is almost impossible 
unless he can assuage its 
never-failing thirst. He has 
learned that plenty of water 
at transplanting time always 
makes for success, while re¬ 
ducing labor. He may not 
know, but it is a fact, that 
market gardeners often let the 
water run for hours on the 
ground where celery is to go, 
with results that are measured 
(Left) A rotary, portable sprinkler that 
will cover evenly and perfectly a circle 
75 ' in diameter. It is capable of many 
adjustments. Courtesy Ramapo Irri¬ 
gation Co. 
by dollars instead of dimes in the market. 
The season is lengthened, because the use of 
water will ward off early fall frosts. Experi¬ 
ence has shown this to be true. Garden makers 
equipped with an irrigation system are able to 
save their vegetables and flowers when their 
neighbors lacking this advantage lose them. In 
connection with a simple tile drainage system, 
which makes the garden ready 
for cultivation very early in 
the spring, an irrigation sys¬ 
tem adds several weeks to the 
length of time when vegeta¬ 
bles can be cropped. One 
other point in this connection 
is worth noting. Vegetables 
which are kept growing rap¬ 
idly have better flavor than 
those which grow slowly, and 
as a rule are much better able 
to resist the attacks of insect 
pests and fungous diseases. 
Irrigation to the average 
person means a ditch by 
which water can be distrib¬ 
uted through the fields. This 
is a primitive type and can 
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The stand-pipe type can 
operate unobstructed in the 
midst of tall flowers. Cour¬ 
tesy TV. G. Cornell Co. 
