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Home Owners Should Have
Fruit And Vegetable Gardens

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A home garden is incomplete I'M
less it includes some of the more
permanent vegetables and small
fruits in addition to the regular
annual vegetables that are unusual
ly planted. A bed of asparagus, sew
eral hills of rhubarb, a few plants OF
horse radish Strawberries, rasp
berries, blackberries, dewberriCs,
Logan blackberries, grapes, currants
and gooseberries, according to To-
cality and available space, are valua-
BILE addition to the home garden.
All of the above might not thrive
in any one locality or on one type OF
soil, and care must be exercised ii
making the selection, says the Unit
ed States Department OF Agriculture
in a new Farmers Bulletin. No. 124z
Permanent Fruit and Vegetable Gar
dens, just issued, copies, Of which
may be had free upon request.
The department says that about
80 out of every 100 farms in thu
United States have upon them sOn2
form of a home garden or source oil
supply of fresh vegetables. Many OF
these gardens include, in addition t.,
the annual vegetables, small fruits
and certain of the perennial or more
or less permanent vegetables.
Thousands of city, town, and villag-
gardens also include small fruits.
asparagus, rhubarb, and other
permanent crops.
This bulletin gives brief instruc-
tons for the plantingand care of Tho
more important small fruits and per-
ennial vegetables. More complete
information may be found IN the
special bulletins Of the Department
of Agriculture and of the State ag-
ricultural colleges and experiment
stations.
The products OF the small fruits
and the permanent vegetables of the
garden are many and add very great
ly to the variety of food. RhubarD
pie and sauce have just the right
tartness and flavor that one Graves
during the first days of spring. Lat
er on, when strawberries are plent-
full, little of the rhubarb with the
strawberries adds the most delicious
flavor and tartness to the berries.
Currants are considered one of the
most desirable fruits for jelly max
ing, and when thoroughly ripened
they make an excellent sauce and
dessert, especially if mixed with
respberries. Jellies, jams and mar
malades in plenty can be made from
raspberries, dewberries and black
berries, to say nothing OF the Juices
and various products that may be
made from grapes. By having col
lection of the different small fruits
that are adapted to the region one
can enjoy a continuous supply OF
good things to eat throughout the
greater part of the summer and III
addition have an abundance of pre-
serves for winter use.
There should be a great revival in
the planting of small fruits and
grapes in connection with home gar
dens, especially in sections where
home orchards are dying out or new
ones are not being planted. The care
of small fruits as regards spraying
and other requirements is more SIM
pie than that of the orchard fruits,
and the small fruits can be grown on
a much more limited space. -.
When space is available P section
Of the garden may be set aside for
the permanent vegetables and the
small fruits. - location of these
permanent crops however, should be
such that they will not interfere with
the blowing of the garden or the cui !
tivation of the annual vegetables. In
no case should the small fruits be
crowded, it being best to plant u
limited number, selecting those best
adapted to the region.
In small gardens the asparagus
bed may be placed in one corner Or
in an offset at the end Of the gar
den. and the hills Of rhubarb along
the side fence, where they will be
out of the way of general cultiva-
ton. Sometimes the rhubarb g:
asparagus is arranged in sort of
row or narrow bed across the front
of garden, separating the garden
proper from the lawn at the rear OF
the house. In large gardens every
thing should be planted in straight
rows in order to facilitate cultiva-
ton. Dewberries can often be
trained upon fence, and grapes can
be grown on an arbor over the gar
den walk.
Climatic and soil conditions re-
strict the planting of some Of the
vegetables and number OF the
small fruits to prescribed localities.
For example, rhubard thriyeS only
in those parts of the country where
the ground freezes to depth of 4
inches or more during the winter.