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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN
A GOOD COLLECTION OF HOME-GROWN VEGETABLES
LETTUCE MATURING IN HOME-MADE COLD FRAME
The
Vegetable Garden
WHAT, WHEN, AND HOW TO PLANT
Reprinted from "The Farmer's Cyclopedia"
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1912, by
AGRICULTURAL SERVICE COMPANY
Washington, D. C.
All rights reserved
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE Its Importance 3 Location 5 Plan and Arrangement 5 Fertilizers 7 Preparation of the Soil 9 Time of Planting 10 Selection of Seed 10 Sowing and Planting 11 Tools 15 Mulching 15 Irrigation 18 Thinning 19 Transplanting 19 Setting in the Open Ground 20 Protection of Plants 21 Harvesting, Packing and Shipping 22
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Fennel 73 Garlic 73 Ginger 73 Herbs 73 Horse Radish 74 Ice Plant 73 Kale 74 Kohl-Rabi 74 Leek 75 Lettuce 75 Lleren 75 Martynia 76 Melon—Muskmelon 76 Melon—Watermelon 81 Mustard 82 Nasturtium 82 New Zealand Spinach 83 Okra 83 Onions 85 Parsley 95 Parsnip
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">95 Peas 95 Peppers 96 Physalis 96 Potato 97 Pumpkin 116 Radish 116 Rhubarb 116 Ruta-Baga 117 Salsify 117 Scolymus 117 Skirret 117 Sorrel 118 Spinach 118 Squash 118 Stachys 118 Sweet Basil 119 Sweet Corn 119 Sweet Marjoram 119 Sweet Potato 119 Swiss Chard 128
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Thyme 128 Tomatoes 128 Turnips 137 Vegetable Marrow 137 Quantity of Seed to Plant 138 Composition of Roots 140 Authorities Consulted 140
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A Good Collection of Home-Grown Vegetables. Frontispiece Lettuce Maturing in Home-Made COLD FRAME FACING PAGE Liquid Manure is One of the Best Acting Fertilizers 8 The Wheel Hoe is the Handiest Garden Tool 16 The Easiest Running Wheel Hoe Valuable for Maintaining a Dust Mulch 16 Temporary Hotbeds in a City Back Yard 30 Showing Vegetables Growing in Hotbed 32 Celery Banked With Earth to Blanch It 62 Japanese Climbing Cucumbers, Nearly Six Feet From the Ground 68 Well-Grown Cucumbers 68 Thorough Cultivation of the Growing Crop is an Essential of Successful Potato Raising 110