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COMBINATION GARDEN OF FRUIT, FLOWERS, VEGETABLES
ways try to break the crust after a rain.
During dry weather keep a thin layer of
cultivated soil on the surface, which causes
moisture to rise from the water veins un-
derneath, by the principle of capillary at-
traction.
   It is safer to have on hand standard
 spraying solutions, and a good hand spray-
 er. Information concerning insect pests
 can be obtained from State agricultural in-
 stitutions.
   The plan here described eliminates much
 of the drudgery and disagreeable work that
 made the old-time garden with its beds and
 hills and short crooked rows, hand-hoeing
 and finger weeding, a place where the aver-
 age man did not love to be. Modern imple-
 ments and methods can now make garden-
 ing a recreation. One can get just as good
 exercise pushing a wheel hoe, as with a ten-
 nis racket, and can show better results.
   Our own fruit, vegetable and flower gar-
 den has materialized from a plan first
 worked out on paper, very similar to the
 one I have outlined here, and we get from
 it food for both mind and body. The flow-
 ers which finish out the rows or fill in some
 unoccupied space cost little extra work, and
 beautify the house, as well as awaken in us
 a spiritual sense of which, it may be, we
 were not conscious.
   A garden plan can be only a suggestion,
and the one submitted is a general system
which can be modified to suit one's conve-
nience and needs. Lists of varieties cannot
be given suited to all sections of the coun-
try, but it is safe to grow those known to
thrive in one's own locality. State experi-
ment stations and colleges give free reliable
information on tested varieties suited to all
localities. Write early for catalogues from
reputable seedsmen, make the selections and
order early.
  In the diagram given with this article
hardy and tender plants are grouped -to-
gether according to space required. Late
vegetables, as late celery and cabbage, can
be transplanted to rows where early pota-
toes, lettuce, peas, etc., have been grown.
A hotbed will advance some of the vege-
tables and flowers, and to any garden en-
thusiast will prove an excellent friend to the
seasons to come. Indeed the hotbed is, after
all, once it is properly built, almost a primer
of gardening in itself, and after a season's
experience should be able to produce almost
as many things as the famous box of Pan-
dora, though far pleasanter ones to deal
with.
  One's attention should also be called to
the cold-frame, which differs somewhat
from the hotbed, since it seeks rather to pro-
tect early started plants than to push them
to early growth and is in itself an excellent
"halfway house" between the hotbed and the
garden rows.
  PLAN OF I-ACRE GARDEN, 5 x 8 RODS.
Daffodils
and Tulips
Narcissus
and Gladio-
lus
Carnations
Pinks
Pansy
Verbena
Annual
Phlox
Petunias
Asters
Nastur-
tiums
Dahlias
Sweet Peas
Cosmos
Roses
Roses
Hollyhocks
Stocks
Rhubarb
Asparagus
Strawberries
Peas planted at different
  times
Lettuce, Radishes, Spinach,
  Onions
Parsnip, Salsify, Beets,
  Turnips
Seed bed for Cabbage, Cau-
  liflower and Celery
Early Potatoes
Wax Beans, Bush Beans
Dwarf Lima Beans and run-
  ning limas .on wire trellis
Melons and winter Squash,
  vines to run in Corn rows
Sweet Corn
Cucumbers, Tomatoes
Currants and Gooseberries
Raspberries
Blackberries
Grapes
Dwarf fruit trees
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