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PRIZE GARDENING 



while the new-set beds were not yet in bearing-. Mr. 

 Knapp works in a shop from half-past six to six 

 o'clock, and tends his garden evenings and holidays. 

 Income was one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and 

 twenty-five cents. Cost, one hundred and ninety-three 

 dollars and eighteen cents. Loss, thirteen dollars and 

 ninety-three cents. 



MR. TYE'S CURRANT BUSHES AND I.ATE TURNIPS 



A Natural Garden. — One of the few eastern con- 

 testants not complaining of injury from dry weather 

 w^as C. E. Lord of Connecticut, whose garden was on 

 light, rich loam, a level spot forty feet below the brow 

 of a hill. Subsoil was gravelly. The garden was evi- 

 dently one of nature's choice locations ; fertile, springy, 

 valley land, but naturally well drained. Crops grew 

 to perfection and some took premiums at the county 

 fair. From the fifteen hundred square feet Mr. Lord 

 took vegetables worth ten dollars and eighty-one cents, 

 sold at retail prices, but with the liberal discount of 



