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PRIZE GARDENING 



under good culture and the skillful irrigation methods 

 of J. B. Reynolds, a successful contestant living in 

 Burlington county, New Jersey. The location was 

 house lot land on the edge of the city, and the soil had 

 been " farmed to death " by cropping without fertiliz- 

 ing, until weeds were the only crop that would flourish. 

 The g arden was carefully planned. The plot of two 



FRUIT TREES IN THE GARDEN 



thousand two hundred and forty square feet produced 

 vegetables worth twenty-nine dollars and fifty-four 

 cents at a cost of nineteen dollars and ninety-two cents 

 for labor and seven dollars and fifty-eight cents for 

 other expenses, leaving two dollars and four cents 

 profit. The irrigation is of special interest as described 

 by Mr. Reynolds : 



