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Show Why Gardens Failed Many people aro expressing surprise that potatoes pota-toes and other vegetables keep on sellLng fairly high, nfter a season when a great many people- who never before had gardens wero raising them in' their front yards. Hut it should bo remembered that It was a first attempt with many of tho gardeners, and the results wcio frequently disappointing. Conditions which an old farmer would at once recognize as unfavorable wero ignored, and much futile fu-tile work was done that could be avoided .another time. In tho case of tho back yard potato crop, the vines wero frequently most deceptive In their luxuriance. luxuri-ance. From their night and vitality the gardener expected a handsome return underground. Hut when they were dug, either there wero scarcely any tubers, tub-ers, or thoy were so munll as hardly to bo worth saving. Theso failures aro explained by some farmers in this way. They say that aliout half of tho amateur ama-teur gardeners attempted to cultlvato land or yards which woro too heavily shaded with trees. Not merely was tho necessary sunlight cut off, but tho trees send a thick networjc of roots through tho ground for a space equal to that occupied by tho branches and foliage of tho tree above- ground. Theso roots drink up all of the moisture that can coino either from rain or watering by tho gardener, gard-ener, also tho soil nutriment. There is llttlo left for tho vegetable, which Is but an Intruder on ground pre-cniptled by tree growth. To get a good garden theso umatiurs must get out from near tho trees Into an open nnd unshaded field, where their plants will have all tho nourishment tho soil can afford. o |