WHEN TO COMMENCE A GARDEN. 155 



There is a space that was planted in early 

 peas. The vines are still sprawling about or 

 clinging to the old bush. Unless the latter are 

 of cedar, or of some good hard wood, the whole 

 rubbish is swept away to the compost heap. The 

 ground is then clear and can be prepared for 

 a fall or spring crop. If July has not passed, and 

 good strong celery plants can be had, these may 

 be set out at once. If it is about the loth of 

 August, the early yellow-stone or strap-leaved 

 turnips can still be sown. But we will even 

 suppose August on the wane, and that our new 

 and eager purchaser can do little more with his 

 ground that can make any return this year. 



Still, having read some better book than this, 

 or having had his eyes opened by experience, 

 his own or that of some one else, he does not 

 dream of waiting till the following spring, but 

 with hearty vigor, commences at once. 



Those old withering cucumber-vines are swept 



