. American homes and gardens. Well Grown Peppers as the hills, and so, in asense, they are; nevertheless,they have all been recentlydeveloped anew, and aremaking possible a new gar-dening. Take, for instance,the matter of irrigation; itswonderful effects on cropgrowth have been known al-most as far back as the be-ginnings of agriculture it has remained for thepast decade to see workedout a system thoroughlypractical for use on a verysmall scale, absolutely de-pendable in operation andreasonable in price. Yet suchan irrigation system is themost important factor so fardiscovered in ma
. American homes and gardens. Well Grown Peppers as the hills, and so, in asense, they are; nevertheless,they have all been recentlydeveloped anew, and aremaking possible a new gar-dening. Take, for instance,the matter of irrigation; itswonderful effects on cropgrowth have been known al-most as far back as the be-ginnings of agriculture it has remained for thepast decade to see workedout a system thoroughlypractical for use on a verysmall scale, absolutely de-pendable in operation andreasonable in price. Yet suchan irrigation system is themost important factor so fardiscovered in making the re-sults of the garden is the greatest factor,too, in making possible thecarrying out of any gardenplan we may make. Withoutit, in a season of droughtand uncertain weather, theschedule will have to beabandoned, no matter howcarefully made up, for thecrops cannot be made to ar-rive or start on time. Suc-cession-cropping, Compan- 84 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS March, 1913. A group of vegetables that have reached maturity under the best of conditions ion cropping, and Inter-planting—although useful in the an advantage over the usual succession crops, in that the depend-on-the-weather garden, can give us their best re- second crop is well started along before the first is off the suits only where the problem of moisture is under reason- ground. Beets between lettuce, carrots between onions are able control. It is on the conservative side of the facts to examples of this method. state that modern irrigation will at least double the product Let us see, now, how we may best go to work to utilizeof the home garden in the average season. Farther on in these several possibilities in our own home garden, wherethis article, I shall describe this system more fully. I wish things must of necessity be done on a comparatively smallhere only to emphasize its importance in enabling us to scale. First of all, it is necessary to classify our vegetableshave a full suppl
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