. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. til they are underdrained. Tiledrains help to make wet soils drier, and dry soilsmore moist. Write to the U. S. Department ofAgriculture, Washington, D. C, and ask for a copyof free Farmers Bulletin Xo. 187, entitled. Drainageof Land. Plaxxixg axd Layixg-Out.—Begin this prelim-inary work early. Study the characteristics of yourland, its wet and dry places, its sandy or clayeyspots, etc. Pleasure it accurately. Then figure out,on paper, a definite planting plan, showing justwhere everything should go, the distan
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. til they are underdrained. Tiledrains help to make wet soils drier, and dry soilsmore moist. Write to the U. S. Department ofAgriculture, Washington, D. C, and ask for a copyof free Farmers Bulletin Xo. 187, entitled. Drainageof Land. Plaxxixg axd Layixg-Out.—Begin this prelim-inary work early. Study the characteristics of yourland, its wet and dry places, its sandy or clayeyspots, etc. Pleasure it accurately. Then figure out,on paper, a definite planting plan, showing justwhere everything should go, the distance betweenrows, and ideas about successional plantings. Thediagram of a garden, pictured in this chapter, maygive you some useful hints. It is a plan drawn byJohn W. Lloyd for an Illinois Experiment Stationbulletin. Xo distances between rows are given inthis reproduction of his plan, for distances woulddepend upon whether the garden is to be worked byhand or by horse power. (The correct distances forplanting are given, either way, elsewdiere in thisbook.) 12 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK. Whatever plan youdecide on, endeavor, ifpossible, to have long,straight rows, whichwill permit much ofthe work to be done bywheel hoe or by horsepower. Therefore, runthe rows the long wayof the garden or field;whether the rows runnorth and south or eastand west is not so im-portant. Plan to havelevel rows, not ele-vated little beds di-vided into squares bypaths. Let the spacesbetween rows be thepaths, generally speak-ing. Some folks seemto think that a gardenmust be a series ofbeds raised higher thanthe path or groundlevel; this, in mostcases, is a great mis-take, for such elevatedplaces soon dry outand the plants sufferfor If theground is naturally sodamp that raising thebeds is necessary toget them up out of PREPARATION OF THE LAND 13 the wet, then the practise may, perhaps, have theshadow of an excuse—but twould be much better tounderdrain ground which is so wet. The AIarket Garden.—T
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