Evening star., 1915-02-28

results that are surprisingly better are
practically assured. Here Is the tenta
tive list. which may be modified to
suit individual tastes:
Sweet corn. an early and late variety.
or single variety planted for success
sion: string beans. planted for all
summer succession; peas, two or three
paintings ten days apart: tomatoes OF
a long bearing variety or planted for
succession: lima beans, either the bush
variety. If the garden is small. or the
Kind grown on poles, II more space is
available; small plot for lettuce. pre-
ferably the kind that forms heads,
another small bed of onions. two or
three hills of cucumbers; and, IL de-
sired. short double row of beets for
early summer use.
The writer calls to mind a city mans
garden. grown on lot forty feet wide.
with four feet down the middle given
up to walk. The actual space avail
able for gardening-that is. the grow
ing OF table vegetables-measured on
one side of the walk, twelve feet wide
py twenty-five feet long, and on the
opposite side ten feet wide by twenty
Two feet long. On this space all the
string beans-the bush kind-were
grown that were used by family Of
SIX adults. with a small surplus to be
canned for winter use; all the tomatoes
used in any way during the whole
summer. with plenty left for making
catsup, chill sauce and for canning:
two small beds of onions, one used
green and the other producing more
than bushel of onions for winter;
twenty dozen fine roasting ears; six
teen dozen cucumbers. and all the let
tuce the family could use, with lots
given to neighbors who made no gar
den because they had no room worth
while. s. although their rear yards were
JUST the size of the one referred to.
NO eHort was made to grow potatoes
or cantaloupes, or watermelons, or
half dozen other things: attention
was conhned to growing just as many
as possible of a few vegetables of
which every member of the family was
fond. And results. in actual cash value,
IN the satisfaction of having fresh,
crisp. juicy vegetables on the table
half an hour after they were plucked,
and in the wholesome exercise and
recreation of working out of doors,
were sufficient to cause one city man.
after three years of such vest pocket
gardening, to move out into the real
country. where he could have q gar
and jump. And he says he hasn't been
sorry single minute that he made
the move.
The working equipment required for
even rather ambitious gardening on
erations are
Outfit Of Implements surpr isingly
for Garden Work. i rev W. A spaae' space
hoe and one with a narrow blade-for
working between rows and close to the
plants-and a dibble for setting out
plants like tomatoes. cabbages, etc.
are all the tools that are absolutely
necessary. To these may be added
whatever else in the way of equip
ment the individual gardeners lncli-
nation and garden cash dictate This,
of course. is taking it for granted that
plowing is to be hired, as we'll as har-
rowing and laying OFF" the garden, if
1t IS of such size as to make this meth
cd better than spading the garden plot.
A one-wheel cultivator. equipped
with three or four removable blades
of various sizes and shapes, for differ
ent gardening operations, is a good in
vestment, but it may readily be dis
above are all that are actually need
ed; with them every detail of garden
Ing work may be carried on success
fully; and the outfit should not cost
more than SO.
Equipment, not absolutely neces-
sary, but which will aid in getting the
work done satisfactorily and expedi-
tiously. include, in addition to the one
wheel hand cult1FatOr referred to, a
broad. heavy wedding hoe. a spading
fork, small hand weeder, for working
in an onion bed. for instance; long
handled weed cutter, with which the
gardener may walk along the rows and
cut off the weeds to a depth of an inch
beneath the ground: a three-gallon
watering pot with removable sprink-
Ter: hand sprayer, for spraying pota-
to plants. etc, for the determination
Of insect pests: a wheelbarrow. for
moving fertilizer, etc; gardening
gloves-though only the rank amateur
ever uses these, and then only at the
risk of being considered eliminate
and a supply Of bordeaux mixture,
paris green and other Insecticides with
which to give battle } the innumer-
able hosts of bugs Of every kind that
appear to lie in wait for growing
things Of all kinds except useless
weeds.
So equipped the gardener may begin
operations with the certainty that
only long-continued droughrh or sim
liar unavoidable calamity can inter-
fere with his tuccess.
Every one knows that the first step in
making ready for gardening work of
any kind
Getting Things Ready is tn e