MY GARDEN WHAT FRUITS WERE CULTIVATED. 83 



March, the most trying month of the year in 

 the garden, was unusually severe and late, so 

 that the vines without /any protection nearly 

 all died. Twenty-seven quarts, selling for 

 eight dollars and thirty cents, were the meagre 

 results. In a small garden and for family use it 

 certainly would pay to protect the canes in the 

 winter, and farther on we hope to discuss this 

 matter more fully. With the Wilson variety 

 there would be no great difficulty in doing this, 

 if, as with me, it always grows in a slender, trail- 

 ing fashion. 



The remaining fruit of my garden from which 

 I reaped an income in '71 is the historical and 

 poetical product of the vine better, I am 

 obliged to confess, in poetry and history, than 

 in reality with me. In our soil and latitude the 

 raising of first-class grapes is a fine art to which 

 I have not attained. And yet I believe it can 

 be done indeed it has been done, as Mr. 



