PRIZE GARDENING FOR WOMEN 12^ 



Otherwise. Before ail and above everytliing- else is a 

 quiet determination to succeed in whatever I undertake. 

 A Woman's Pastime. — Our farm upon which the 

 garden is situated is a hill farm and in the center of 

 the state, writes Mrs. J. E. Dole of Vermont. The 

 garden spot is in the open field, which was a piece 

 of greensward, and is sixty by one hundred and thirty 

 feet, and the soil is a clayey loam. My youngest son 

 enlisted in the Spanish-American war and died from 

 fever, and to keep my mind and hands busy I entered 

 the garden contest. 1 knew I could not compete with 

 those who live where the season is longer and who do 

 not expect a frost every month. With a set of Planet 

 Jr implements, garden hoe and rake I felt well 

 equipped for the summer's work. The garden spot 

 was easy of access, quite level, but the soil was thin 

 in places, as it was underlaid with a granite ledge. 



The weather was so cold that no work was done 

 until Alay i, when eight cords of manure were put on 

 and the garden plowed and harrowed. I sowed some 

 peas in double rows one foot apart and two feet 

 between every two rows, so that I could bush two rows 

 of peas with one set of brush. Made drills with my 

 hoe and put Bowker's phosphate in the bottom, cover- 

 ing with loose soil before sowing the peas. Planted 

 bush cranberry beans, onions, lettuce, beets, spinach, 

 parsley and sweet corn May 5-6. May 8 made three 

 flower beds twenty-four by two and one-half feet and 

 raked in phosphate sown broadcast before planting the 

 seed, which was aster, snapdragon, balsam, bachelor's 

 button, candytuft, cacalia, dianthus, gaillardia, lobelia, 

 marigold, mignonette, petunia, phlox, poppies, portu- 

 laca, sweet alyssum, verbenas and feverfew. 



Planted some potatoes May 9, the next day cab- 

 bage, cauliflower, carrots, turnips and lettuce and the 

 day following okra, martynia, beet, radish and sweet 



