Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-17

| OF the vegetables needed for a family OF
from three to five The first articles OF
this series will take up these points. tina,
oi To-Day being concerned with the expense
fruits of even a tiny plot well planned
ana well worked mean a material reduction
IN the green grocery bill for the spring and
summer months, with maybe some stored
or canned for the winter. Any one who
mas the modern efficiency idea, which is
merely the reduction of waste, either of mo-
| ,loh or production, to minimum can trans
| 'a'e eHort into terms of gardening profit.
This Is not the iridenscent dream of the
| pook gardeners. theory which the average
| man cannot carry out in practice Any
| commuter who has even a half tolerab BILE
sardeh VIII declare that it has paid in dol
| lars and cents as well as In freshness of
| vegetables, attractiveness of flowers and
| me exercise. In fact, the garden is one of
the compensations of Communication. If you
are commuter, you can cut the high cost
OF living very definitely by a garden. IL
| you are town dweller with any sort of
| backyard at all. you can turn what is often
troublesome grass plot into the field for a
| UNITED number of vegetables. which will be
| prime In quality and sufficient in quantity
| 10 save good deal Of ma rketing. In the
| suburban truck patch you can have almost
| u
considerable amount of room. In the city
| backyard garden you can have tomatoes,
| lettuce, cucumbers. beets and radisnes GER
tainly and in goodly quantity, and eggplants,
| string beans and wax beans and maybe the
bush lima beans, according to the area If
you love flowers. there is opportunity for a
very large variety of the old-fashioned IA
Norites, which in the new varieties are very
| Deautiful and hardy. Recreation and exer-
else of course go with the city as we'll as
| suburban gardening.
AS small sum as 81 will buy enough
seed for tiny pocket handkerchief city
| back yard, and a IS, bill will pay for
| abundant seed for continuous successionsl
planting of a plot 100 by 80 feet.
COST FOR BACKYARD GARDEN
In the case of limited area it is better
to buy some things in the potted form
FOUND in the nurserymen's shops. Half a
dozen early and the same or double the
number of late tomatoes will produce
enough for all current needs from the time
| they begin to bear until frost. Three egg
plants and the same number of pepper
plants will Keep plenty of these vegetables
on the table. These retail from about fifty
TO seventy-fve cents n dozen for stocky
specimens Cabbage, cauliflower and let
tuce can also be bought IN this form for
twenty or twenty-five cents a dozen.
For barn-yard farmer the following
likely to succeed and pay for their culture,
and the quantity and price:
Early peas, half pint Is or 25 cents.
wax beans, pint. 25 or 80 cents. ..,
Stringless green beans, pint, so or 35
cents.
Beets, packet. 5 or 10 cents
Lettuce, packet, 5 or 10 cents
Radish, pa cket, 5 or 10 cents
Cucumbers. packet. 10 cents,
swiss chard, packet, 10 cents
Some or all these can be planted the
cholce and arrangement depending on the
size of the yard. Climbing beans such as
the Kentucky Wonder or Lazy Wife or
Golden Kentucky Wonder or Old Home-
stead, or lima beans can be trained up the
renee. If there is sunny exposure. There
Is also climbing Japanese cucumber.
which comes at ten cents a packet. For
any of the beans from a packet to a pint
would be required, costing from fifteen
10 thlrty-f1ve cents. Corn and potatoes
should not be tried in the very small garden.
The figures given and those that follow
are, or course, only approximate Costs
will vary with the variety selected. the part
of the country bought and the condition of
the seed market For instance, last year
was bad one for beans and prices are
somewhat higher. Seed potatoes are also
up in line with the general rise in the
tubers. Some strains of beets and cabbage
are higher on account of small wartime
imports
SEED foR SMALL FAMILY
The following amounts of seed the gar
den specialists of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture say are needed to plant
approximately 90 feet of row or enough
to supply vegetables for family of four
or five:
Beans snap (stringless), one pint 25 or
80 cents.
Beans, pole lima. one-half pint. 90 cents.
Beans, bush lima, one-half pint to one
pint
cabbage early. one packet, 10 cents.
carrot, one packet, or 10 cents.
Caulifower one packet. 10 cents.
oeiery' one packet. ten cents
cucumber, one-half ounce, 10 or Is cents.
eggplant one packet 10 cents.