8o PRIZE GARDENING 



takes its place. This enables me to always have some- 

 thing new for the table and plenty of it." Water was 

 supplied for irrigation during dry weather, by rigging 

 up an old rotary pump and hose and connecting with 

 the cistern. Bordeaux mixture was used for spraymg 

 tomatoes, beans and other plants to prevent rust and 

 blight, and a little paris green was added to it for pota- 

 toes. Freedom from cutworms was attributed to the 

 use of lime and plowing in the fall, as an adjoining 

 garden was badly troubled. A row of old bean vines 

 were left as bait for green worms, and cabbage plants 

 planted near by escaped. Squash vine borers were 

 removed with a knife by cutting open the vine, length- 

 wise, where they appeared. The vine was then care- 

 fully bandaged with a wet rag and a fair yield obtained. 

 The bordeaux-paris green mixture used on potatoes 

 proved fatal to egg plants, but hellebore proved quite 

 satisfactory for keeping off the potato bugs. 



One hotbed, three by six feet, was used in which 

 to start the seeds of early vegetables. Plantings were 

 made in the open ground as soon as the weather per- 

 mitted and were continued at intervals throughout the 

 season whenever there was a vacant spot in the garden. 

 The following varieties of vegetables, mostly in five 

 and ten-cent packets, were planted : Pole and wax 

 beans, beets, borecole, kale, cabbage, carrots, cauli- 

 flower, celery, celeriac, corn, cucumber, corn salad, 

 endive, egg plant, kohl-rabi, lettuce, muskmelon, onions, 

 peppers, peas, salsify, radish, spinach, squash, tomato, 

 turnip, rutabagas, escarole, chives, shallot, parsley, 

 sweet and Irish potatoes and nearly a dozen different 

 kinds of sweet herbs. 



The garden was planted as shown by the cuts. 

 In the larger garden tomatoes followed peas, turnips 

 the wax beans, early lettuce for fall use took the place 

 of Refugee beans. Corn salad succeeded lettuce. The 



