. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . dening).Figure 294 shows agarden with continuousrows, but with twobreaks running acrossthe area, dividing theplantation into area is surroundedwith a windbreak, andthe frames and perma-nent plants are at oneside. It is by no means 293. A garden fence arranged to allow of horse necessary that the vegetable-garden contain only kitchen-garden products. Flow-ers may be dropped in here and there wherever a vacant corneroccurs or a plant dies. Such infor
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . dening).Figure 294 shows agarden with continuousrows, but with twobreaks running acrossthe area, dividing theplantation into area is surroundedwith a windbreak, andthe frames and perma-nent plants are at oneside. It is by no means 293. A garden fence arranged to allow of horse necessary that the vegetable-garden contain only kitchen-garden products. Flow-ers may be dropped in here and there wherever a vacant corneroccurs or a plant dies. Such informal and mixed gardens usuallyhave a personal character that adds greatly to their interest,and, therefore, to their value. One is generally impressed with III f iI 1 i i i \ i III l! \ S !! I Mini iiiihiiihiii 454 MANUAL OF GARDENING this informal character of the home-gardens in many Euro-pean countries, a type of planting that arises from the necessityof making the most of every inch of land. It was the writerspleasure to look over the fence of a Bavarian peasants gardenand to see, on a space about 40 feet by 100 feet in area, a. ScAUErfflFT. TO iJNC+b 294. A family kitchen-garden. delightful medley of onions, pole beans, peonies, celery, balsams,gooseberries, coleus, cabbages, sunflowers, beets, poppies, cu-cumbers, morning-glories, kohl-rabi, verbenas, bush beans,pinks, stocks, currants, wormwood, parsley, carrots, kale, peren-nial phlox, nasturtiums, feverfew, lettuce, lilies ! Vegetables for six (by C. E. Hunn). A home vegetable-garden for a family of six would require,exclusive of potatoes, a space not over 100 by 150 feet. Be-ginning at one side of the garden and running the rows the THE GROWING OF THE VEGETABLE PLANTS 455 short way (having each row 100 feet long) sowings may bemade, as soon as the ground is in condition to work, of thefollowing: Fifty feet each of parsnips and salsify. One hundred feet of onions, 25 feet of which may be potato or setonions, the remaind
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