60 MY GARDEN- -HOW IT GREW. 



telling, and does not poke them back in the 

 ground when they first appear to pop out, as he 

 was inclined to do at first. lie has -become one 

 of the solid citizens, with a goodly bank account, 

 The young boy to whom I have referred, also 

 proved a treasure, and stayed with me till the 

 fall of '7 1. 



I cultivated this season about an acre, and my 

 sales rose to seven hundred and sixty-three dol- 

 lars and thirty-six cents. 



It began to dawn on me that fruit paid better 

 than vegetables, and I steadily increased the 

 area given to its cultivation. During that fall 

 I invested about one hundred dollars in rasp- 

 berry and blackberry plants. If I had waited 

 till the following spring I suppose I could have 

 bought the same plants for thirty dollars. 



In the spring of '69 my garden reached its 

 full dimensions of two and a quarter acres. My 

 ?ale:> ran up to one thousand three hundred and 



