. Around the year in the garden, a seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 300 AROUND THE YEAR IN THE GARDEN out every spring, only hundreds go into beds that have been given thorough preparation. In spring there is never time to do the job so well as it should be done, and you will have lost the advantage of winter's action on the soil and the pre-digestion of the manure and bone, which make an ideal condition for spring planting. Stake out a bed of the desired size, allowing eighteen inches each way for tea
. Around the year in the garden, a seasonable guide and reminder for work with vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and under glass. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. 300 AROUND THE YEAR IN THE GARDEN out every spring, only hundreds go into beds that have been given thorough preparation. In spring there is never time to do the job so well as it should be done, and you will have lost the advantage of winter's action on the soil and the pre-digestion of the manure and bone, which make an ideal condition for spring planting. Stake out a bed of the desired size, allowing eighteen inches each way for teas and hybrid teas, and twenty-four ai/JSEACE. LEVEL inches for hybrid perpetuals. Select a position that is naturally well drained, sheltered if possible from north and northwest winds, but exposed in other directions, so there will be free circulation of air about the plants—an impor- tant point. Dig out the bed to a depth of two to three feet, the latter depth being necessary if artificial drainage must be added. Place the sod and the good soil in separate piles along one edge of the trench, and the poor soil and subsoil along the other edge. Break up the subsoil at the bottom of the trench with a pick. First put in the drainage, if required—eight inches of coarse gravel, broken stone, old plaster, clean cinders, or any similar material. Over this put a layer of sods, grass side down, or long manure. Fill in to within six or eight inches of the surface level with good soil—the heavier the better—well enriched with rotted manure and coarse or inch bone. The last six or eight inches should be of soil that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye), 1884-1976. New York, The Macmillan company
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