WHEN TO COMMENCE A GARDEN. I.^q 



my sales on the last day of April amounted to 

 one hundred and seventeen dollars, and on the 

 last of May to two hundred and eighty dollars, 

 The heavy and unusual expenses of spring were 

 therefore partially met in the spring. 



It is true that farther to the north and on cold, 

 wet soils the difficulty of wintering over crops 

 would be much greater ; but it is also true that 

 in light soils and sheltered locations farther 

 south, the facility of so doing would be much 

 greater than in our latitude. So much in favor 

 of an autumn rather than a spring commence- 

 ment of a garden already in a fair state of culti- 

 vation. 



But if the reader has taken a new piece of 

 ground that must be broken in for the first time, 

 the argument for this course is doubly strong. 

 If he waits till spring he almost loses a year. If 

 there are stones, rocks, bushes, or stumps upon 

 it, he cannot clear it up in spring sufficiently 



