ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



flowers, four dozen egg-plants, two dozen 

 pepper plants, three dozen tomato plants, 

 three crops of lettuce, and sufficient parsley. 



But little time is required for the care of 

 so small a plot if it be regularly attended 

 to. The plants can be raised from seed 

 sown the first of March in boxes in sunny 

 windows, or in a small hot-bed, or they may 

 be bought about the 18th or 20th of May, 

 which is the time to set them out. Two of 

 the seedsman's packets of each variety of 

 seed, costing but five cents each (except the 

 Cauliflower, which is ten cents), will raise 

 more than sufficient plants. 



I should like to see every little house 

 with even a bit of ground about it, beauti- 

 fied with vines and shrubs and ferns planted 

 closely about the foundations of the house, 

 with flower borders along the fences and 

 dividing lines, and with a little patch of 

 vegetables in the rear. 



A home is always more a home when the 

 outside is cultivated and made beautiful. 



