I08 PRIZE GARDENING 



Space. A little soil was placed over each set and the 

 furrows dusted with potato fertilizer. The covering 

 was quickly and neatly done with the garden plow. 

 The spaces between the potato drills were dusted with 

 fertilizer, and after working it into the soil a row of 

 Victoria Spanish and Burpee's Earliest radish seeds, 

 mixed, was sown with the seed drill in each space. 

 This planting was done Alay 5, following a heavy frost 

 the previous morning. 



Seeds for this garden cost three dollars and twen- 

 ty-seven cents ; all supplies, five dollars and forty-six 

 cents ; labor, three dollars and six cents ; receipts were 

 twenty dollars, and profits seven dollars and eighty- 

 nine cents. 



Grozving Preiniiini Products. — Prize vegetables 

 were abundant on the quarter-acre garden cultivated 

 by W. H. Pillow, New York, winner of the second 

 Bowker special prize. His account includes a long 

 list of awards at the state fair and several county fairs, 

 besides special prizes offered by seedsmen. His aggre- 

 gate winnings were fifty-five dollars and seventy-five 

 cents, and amounted to over one-half of the whole 

 income, which was ninety-five dollars and seventeen 

 cents. Expenses were seventy-nine dollars and eigh- 

 teen cents, expenses of growing and exhibiting the 

 product being heavy. A good share of his success 

 appears to have been due to starting his vegetables 

 under glass, as elsewhere described. Writes Mr. 

 Pillow : 



For sowing by hand I use the hand marker and 

 make drills sixteen inches apart. In every other row 

 I put beets, mangels and such things as stand all 

 summer and require room, while the intervening rows 

 were used for radishes, lettuce, cabbage, spinach, all 

 of which are out of the way by the time the permanent 

 crop requires the room- After sowing such seed as is 



