MY FARM OF EDGEWOOD 



lid of the dreariest and rawest yellow gravel 

 that ever held its cheerless face to the sun. 



The amateur farmer, however, is not stag- 

 gered by any such difficulties ; indeed, he courts 

 them, and delights in making conquest. They 

 make good seed-bed for his theories— far bet- 

 ter than for his carrots. Let me do no discredit, 

 however, to "trenching," which in the right 

 place, and rightly performed, by thorough ad- 

 mixture, is most effective and judicious; nor 

 should any thoroughly good garden be estab- 

 lished upon soil which will not admit of it, and 

 justify it. If otherwise, my advice is, not to 

 trench, but— sell to an amateur. 



HOW A GARDEN SHOULD LOOK 



The aesthetic element does not abound in the 

 minds of country farmers; and there is not 

 one in a thousand who has any conception of a 

 garden, save as a patch (always weedy) where 

 the good-wife can pluck a few condiments for 

 dinner. If you visit one, he may possibly take 

 you to see a "likely yearling," or a corn crop, 

 but rarely to his garden. Yet there is no eco- 

 nomic reason why a farmer's garden should 

 not make as good and as orderly a show, as 

 his field crops. 



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