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PRIZE GARDENING 



When the plants are eight to twelve inches high, I drive 

 stakes to each one and keep off all suckers but one and 

 the main stem. When the vines get to the top of the 

 three-foot stakes, I cut the vine off." 



IVith Plow, Harrozv, IVJicelbarrozv and Hoes as 

 the only tools, Emma C. Fisher, Walpole, Massachu- 

 setts, cared for a town garden of one thousand three 

 hundred and fifty square feet and secured one of the 

 ten-dollar prizes. Income netted a small sum above 

 cost. Tomato plants were set in vacant hills of corn. 

 Transplanting pumpkins was not a success. Early 

 cucumbers were obtained from vines transplanted from 

 hotbed. Potatoes yielded best from medium and large 

 seed tubers. Purple Top turnips grew faster than the 

 Wliite Egg. A tabulated memorandum for each vege- 

 table will be useful for future reference and compari- 

 son. Below is a specimen from this contestant's diary : 



'' Another year," writes Mrs. Fisher, '' I should not 

 raise peas, potatoes nor squashes, because, while they 

 are doubtless profitable, they require too much land. 

 In a small garden there are other vegetables, such as 

 radishes, beets, beans, lettuce, melons and parsnips, 

 needed only in small quantities, which are more useful 

 than a few peas or potatoes. Early ones might be 

 desirable, but my garden is not early land." 



A Successful Garden of over three acres is de- 

 scribed by Mrs. F. W. FIsk, Clayville, New York. The 

 mother of three small children, with no help in the 



