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five-cent packages of each variety of seed, except 

 cauliflower, which costs ten cents, will raise more 

 than sufficient plants. The seeds should be sown 

 in March, either in boxes in a sunny window, or in 

 a hot bed, and set out about May 20th; or plants 

 may be bought and set out at that time. A 

 very little regular attention is all that is needed 

 by such a plot. 



By putting in a new crop as soon as one was 

 harvested, School Garden boys, eleven to twelve 

 years old, raised on a sixteenth of an acre, 336 

 bunches of radishes, 110 bunches of onions, 368 

 heads of lettuce, 89 bunches of beets, 8 bushels of 

 beans, 7 bushels of tomatoes, 7 bunches of car- 

 rots, and 1 peck of turnips, besides nasturtiums 

 and petunias, many boxes of which found their 

 way to the hospitals of the city. This was at 

 Washington on the grounds of the Department 

 of Agriculture. At regular market prices $55 

 worth of produce was gathered from the small 

 plot. This is at the rate of $960 per acre. The 

 report naively remarks, "experienced farmers 

 sometimes fail to do as well." (U. S. Bulletin 

 No. 160.) 



