MY GARDEN HOW IT GREW. 6 1 



eighty-two dollars and eighty-four cents. But 

 that these figures may not mislead, I am bound 

 to confess that expenses thus far fully kept pace. 

 I see now that they were larger than they 

 need to have been, but will explain farther on. 

 Much of my ground was very stony, cold, and 

 soddy, and not in sufficiently good heat to pro- 

 duce large crops of anything. I put on great 

 quantities of green and unrotted manure, but as 

 the season proved dry it was almost a detriment, 

 and did not improve the land as it would if the 

 summer had been moist. Many of my crops 

 did not return their cost, and were of a kind 

 that do not pay in such a garden as mine. 



I kept setting out fruit, though not nearly as 

 rapidly as I ought. If I had. from the first put 

 two-thirds of my ground in strawberries and 

 raspberries, and used my fertilizers on them, in- 

 stead of sweet com, peas, and potatoes, my gar- 

 den would have told a very much better story. 



