CHAPTER VI 



ON HIGH-PRICED LAND 



Gardeners in town or city are handicapped by 

 scarcity of good land and suitable labor, but their 

 advantages in the direction of ready markets, plenty of 

 manure and comparative isolation from insects and 

 other pests, have often enabled them to show a hand- 

 some profit. Some of the most successful and best 

 paying gardens entered in the contest were in towns 

 or suburbs, or even on city house lots. 



A City Man's Ga?'den. — One of these gardens, 

 which made a good showing on high-priced land, was 

 described by Mr. J. B. Hauck of Suffolk county, Mas- 

 sachusetts, a prominent prize winner and a gentleman 

 who has made amateur gardening his study for years. 

 The plot of ground upon which was the garden was 

 bought fifteen years ago at a cost of ten cents per 

 square foot. It is located upon a commanding site in 

 one of the suburbs of Boston. The garden is divided 

 in two parts, separated by a street. On the terrace 

 are planted twelve varieties of grapes, which are being 

 trained over an arbor. Scattered about the place are 

 apple, pear, plum, peach, apricot, cherry, chestnut and 

 mulberry trees which are just coming into bearing, 

 and have great promise. 



The lower garden comprises four thousand six 

 hundred and fifty square feet, most of which has been 

 cultivated by Mr. Hauck for thirteen years, who says : 

 " It is still my hobby, my pride. It is situated on a 

 gentle, sunny slope, gaining all the moisture from the 

 hill above. The soil is dark, mellow and rich, with a 



