OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



affair, and I write about it partly because 

 it is so pleasant to tell about one's gar- 

 den, and partly to encourage those who 

 would like to make one too, and who 

 have as few facilities for the making of 

 it as I had ; and to show what one can 

 do without a hot-bed, hose, greenhouse, or 

 gardener, on a wild, rock-strewn mountain 

 side, untamed by the hand of man, and in 

 a climate where frost can come every 

 month in the year; where the mercury 

 goes twenty degrees below zero in winter; 

 and where water and fertilizers are at a 

 premium. 



Furthermore, when I started my garden, 

 I was myself just recovering from a long 

 period of invalidism, and could boast of 

 but little physical strength for digging 

 and planting, and, finally, I had no knowl- 

 edge at all of any of the necessary garden- 

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