158 WHEN TO COMMENCE A GARDEN. 



secure plants that will mature as early for market 

 as those preserved from the preceding season in 

 cold frames. 



Thus we have seen the new and enlightened 

 possessor of a neglected place go to work in the 

 autumn as zealously as do the majority in spring, 

 and when spring comes he is two or three 

 months in advance of his neighbors. While 

 they are breaking up and planting their ground 

 at great expense, and are compelled to wait till 

 midsummer for returns, he is selling crops win- 

 tered over, thus meeting the heavy drafts upon 

 his purse entailed by the extra work and outlay 

 of the opening season. 



When the dying leaves begin to fall in Octo- 

 ber, my garden is almost as green with growing 

 crops as in the following May, and usually I have 

 been able to winter them over without great 

 difficulty. Thus, instead of waiting till June and 

 July before receiving anything from my ground, 



