THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



season have the courage to plant a vegetable garden. Do not have one 

 too large, which you cannot properly care for. Quite a small plot, well 

 manured, constantly cultivated and weeded, and systematically planted, will 

 be a source of pleasure as well as profit. Those who never had such a 

 garden before will appreciate the value of fresh vegetables, and will find 

 in this one way to combat the ever-advancing cost of living. There are 

 too many who, each season, have the garden fever, plant some ground, 

 give it perhaps one cultivation, and then neglect it, hoping for the best. 

 A well planted and tilled vegetable garden is a joy and inspiration. 



Buy the best seeds, replant or re-sow any bare spaces as soon as crops 

 are cleared, and you will be astonished what a small space will yield, if 

 cropped intelligently and intensively. Then, when it is too late to plant 

 any vegetable crop, sow down bare ground with red clover or winter rye, 

 to prevent surface washing and at the same time add fertility to the soil; 

 for these clover crops, when turned in, supply considerable nutrition ; they 

 also give a touch of green which is very refreshing after each vanishing 

 fall of snow. 



The lecture was very interesting and provoked much favorable 

 comment. An audience of over a hundred was present, filling 

 the lecture room to overflowing. At the close a large number of 

 those present crowded around Mr. Craig to ask more definite in- 

 struction on certain points. 

 The meeting adjourned at 5. 



George V. Nash, 



Secretary. 



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