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25 and remained in bearing- some time. From ten 

 roots ten and one-third dozen bunches (thirty-six stalks 

 to the bunch) were cut, which were worth fifty cents 

 per dozen. 



Burpee's seeds, in mostly five and ten-cent packets, 

 were used. A peck of Burpee's Extra Early potatoes 

 worth one dollar, one hundred and twenty cabbage 

 plants at sixty cents, five hundred tomato plants at 

 seven dollars and fifty cents and ten rhubarb roots at 

 one dollar, with the rest of the seeds, footed up to thir- 

 teen dollars and eighty-five cents. The accompanying 

 summaries explain themselves and show that this gar- 

 den of three-fourths of an acre returned a net profit of 

 ninety-two dollars and forty-six cents. 



The Prize Winner and His Family. — Mr. Morse 

 was born near Pontiac, Michigan, of parentage well 

 tinctured with Revolutionary blood. He was the 

 youngest of a family of three, and when eleven years 

 old began to study the problem of self-support. At 

 the age of seventeen he went to the front as a private, 

 and was mustered out seven months later at the close 

 of the Civil war, leaving his regiment as acting orderly 

 sergeant. Returning home, rapidly changing circum- 

 stances soon drew him into music teaching and gospel 

 work, which extended over considerable portions of 

 Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, during 

 which time he marrieda woman whose girlhood was 

 passed upon a farm. They have two little girls, 

 Gladys and Helen, aged six and four years. Subse- 

 quently he took up the management of a newspaper, 

 which broke him down in health and pocket. His 

 early training in farming and fruit growing, supple- 

 mented by a careful study of methods, now came in 

 play, and in the spring of 1896 he took charge of an 

 old nursery, which oflFered a home, with fruit, flowers, 

 etc. He says: 



