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of my marigolds, two verbenas, and as my pansies Avere small, I could 

 not save any. 



April 19 also I planted my sweet peas outdoors. May 1 I saw the first 

 sweet peas up. May 16 I planted my sweet alyssum, candytuft, dianthus, 

 California poppies, mignonette, cosmos, bachelors' buttons, Drummond 

 phlox, larkspur, and nasturtiums. I also have four geraniums in my 

 garden which I kept all winter in the house. I watered my garden with 

 a watering pot the first of the year, but after my plants were all up I 

 watered it with the hose. 



Out of nineteen different kinds of seed I had fifteen kinds come up. 

 The insects did not trouble me at all. The weeds did not as I pulled 

 every one I saw; so by watching very closely I got ahead of the weeds 

 instead of the weeds getting ahead of me. As I had flowers the only use 

 I could make of them was to give them to sick people and people that had 

 none. 



EDNA C. BROWN, AYER, MASS. 



Second Prize, 1906. (Girls.) 



I became interested in gardening this summer because my brothers 

 have had home gardens for several summers. 



My garden was dug up for me and I raked out the stones and smoothed 

 it off. I planned where I would have the rows and arranged for the beds. 



The first year was required to have beets, cucumbers, beans, lettuce, 

 and sunflowers. I also had carrots and radishes. I put the beets and 

 lettuce in beds, the beans, radishes, and carrots in rows, and the cucumbers 

 in hills. 



I had one bed of lettuce and transplanted another bed out of it. We 

 used and gave away about fifty heads. I picked about a peck of beans. 

 I had six or eight hills of cucumbers and I raised about four dozen. 



The garden exhibit was the 12th of September. I received the second 

 prize on my sunflowers and second prize on my beets and carrots. I 

 have some beets and carrots in a box in the cellar now. 



I have enjoyed working in my garden this summer and I hope to have 

 a better one next year. 



