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PRIZE GARDENING 



The illustration on Page 30 shows clearly the 

 arrangement of the plot and the crops grown. Con- 

 siderable space was devoted to grapes, strawberries, 

 raspberries and asparagus, for which there was a good 

 demand at a fair price. The small, closely set, narrow 

 teeth were used almost entirely on the cultivation 

 instead of the two and one-half-inch teeth commonly 



THE EARLY HOTBEDS 



used. The methods employed in growing crops will 

 be described in the words of Mr. Wright. 



Tomatoes. — Ground had been plowed, harrowed 

 and marked out with shovel plow in deep furrows, five 

 feet apart, and cross-marked in rows four feet, until 

 we found by counting up hills we would be short of 

 ground. So we cross-marked the balance about three 

 and one-half feet. With hoes we pulled the soil out 



