The gardenette; . BENJ. F. ALBAUGH The Gardenette OR City Back Yard GardEiN S Y The Sandwich SystemW ,9,2 AN A Complete Guide FOR The Amateur Gardener BY Benjamin F. Albaugh Covington, Ohio Copyrighted 1912 By Benjamin F. Albaugh ©CI,A31303: o,^^ hK. THE GARDENETTE OR The City Back Yard Garden. THIS LITTLE VOLUME is not designed as a guide to those whohave large areas to cultivate, nor is it intended for the use of pro-fessional marker gardeners, but is arranged to meet the needs ofthe beginner, or amateur, and especially for those who have limitedareas that are available for this purpose. Few
The gardenette; . BENJ. F. ALBAUGH The Gardenette OR City Back Yard GardEiN S Y The Sandwich SystemW ,9,2 AN A Complete Guide FOR The Amateur Gardener BY Benjamin F. Albaugh Covington, Ohio Copyrighted 1912 By Benjamin F. Albaugh ©CI,A31303: o,^^ hK. THE GARDENETTE OR The City Back Yard Garden. THIS LITTLE VOLUME is not designed as a guide to those whohave large areas to cultivate, nor is it intended for the use of pro-fessional marker gardeners, but is arranged to meet the needs ofthe beginner, or amateur, and especially for those who have limitedareas that are available for this purpose. Few persons realize the possibilities of the small piece of ground repre-sented by the back-yard of the ordinary city lot—that part which is not oc-cupied by buildings. Too often this part of the yard is made the depositoryof garbage and useless trash of all kinds. Such accumulations are unsightly and This waste ground could be made to produce enough vegetables of all kinds,to supply several families. The Sandwich System, herein described, is not an idle theory, but asolid, successful fact, the result of five years careful, painstaking experiments,and highly successful efforts in practical vegetable growing. This peculiar method was first suggested by noticing the marvelous n-rowth of woods, olc, alxmt tlio haso of an old, dooayiiif; stniwhoap, whoresoiiio slahio maiiuro liad hooii diiinped on a lliin layer of straw. On lidsinoro shaw was scratchod down by i)ouUry. Lastly on top a few wa^on-loadsof si root scrapings, containing weed seeds were dumped. With this hint fora hoginninii, the niarvelously successful Sandwich bed was elaborated. Ilio surpassing vigor of growth, the oarlinoss, largo size, and su|)eriorquality of the jjroducts grown by this method, make gardening a very fasci-nating employment, for it cannot be denied that the ability to greatly .sur-l)ass The Other Fellow,gardenette01alba
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