PRIZE GARDENING FOR WOMEN I3I 



September i. — There are many melons and they 

 are now ripening fast. We have many freaks this 

 year. Nearly every stump where we have cut a cab- 

 bage head has grown from three to thirty small heads, 

 from the size of a walnut to three or four inches in 

 diameter. One cauliflower, instead of making a single 

 head, branched from the stalk and gave six heads about 

 four inches across, each inclosed in its outer leaves. I 

 found several medium-sized ears of corn not covered 

 by any husk at the top of the stalks among the tassels. 

 The Australian Brown onion was very good and of 

 mild and pleasant flavor. The celery seems to be 

 blighting. The outside leaves turn brown at the tips 

 and slowly die down. Both varieties seem affected, 

 and some who bought plants have the same trouble. 

 Out of six hundred plants set not more than half that 

 number are good ones. 



November lo. — The garden is about all garnered 

 in. The celery is to bury and the vegetable oysters 

 and parsnips, both very fine, will be left in the ground 

 till spring, with the exception of a few packed in sand 

 for winter use. 



Oiie of the Most Profitable Small Gardens was 

 carried on by Mrs. L. M. A. Hall, Tolland county, Con- 

 necticut. Her income from about a quarter-acre was 

 two hundred and five dollars and sixty-four cents. 

 Expenses were sixty-three dollars and thirteen cents, 

 leaving one hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty- 

 one cents net. The produce was sold from a meat cart, 

 and brought fair prices. Earliness greatly helped the 

 cash returns. Some crops were started indoors, while 

 the outdoor crops were planted at the earliest possible 

 date, with the result that most of the produce was sold 

 before similar crops from other gardens had come into 

 the market. Beans and corn were considered the most 

 profitable garden crops, but all the common vegetables 



