MAY 15. 1916 



paper to tell us wliat was going on in the 

 world. Later on I remember when Mr. 

 Barber (father of the millionaire) had :i 

 match-factory between Akron and our Mots- 



adore home; and my aunt Harriet worked 

 tor him. Jn fact, I am not sure but she 

 was the first girl employed in Barber's little 

 brick match-factory. 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING 



SOME GLIMPSES OF OUR FLORIDA GARDEN. 



Ever since T was big enough to get a look 

 at things outdoors I have been interested in 

 seeing things gTow. My good mother was 

 my first teacher in calling- my attention to 

 Grod's wonderful handiwtuk in making it 

 possible for the tiny seeds to come to life 

 and grow, and I believe I have always had 

 a garden. I am particularly interested in 

 plants that make rapid growth — especially 

 so, since in Florida success with poultry 

 depends largely on giving them a generous 

 supply of green stuff for food. Two plants 

 during the past winter have given me much 

 gratification in the i-apidity of their growth. 

 The first is the collard. I believe tliey are 

 grown largely in Georgia and further south. 

 1 am told they are a favorite with the 

 colored people. Some time in February 1 

 sent by mail for one hundred collard plants. 

 They started right up and grew in almost 

 n(j time; and the severe drouth in February 

 did not seem to disturb them a particle. 

 As we had more plants than we had room 

 for I set them in various places all over 

 the garden ; and in the poorest ground, with 

 almost no fertilizer, they made great bushy 

 plants in an astonishingly short space of 

 time. 



Figs. 1 and 2 show the collard. The 

 photographer threw his hat down by the side 

 of one so as to give an idea of the relative 

 size of the plant, and you can see where I 

 placed my hand on some of the foliage. 

 Well, I have already pulled great armfuls 

 of leaves from these plants for the chickens. 

 T pulled off the lower leaves, of course; but 



it seems the more leaves I pulled off, the 

 faster they grew. Some of the midribs of 

 the leaves were so large the chickens could 



No. 2. — A couple more of the Georgia ooUards on com 



No. 1. — A Georgia collard, about sixt.v days after 

 setting out the plant. 



not readily break them up; but after they 

 had eaten off the leafy part I took those 

 midribs in my hands^ holding as large a 

 bundle as I could compass, and with a very 

 sharp knife 1 slashed them in lengths of 

 about an inch. In this way the chickens 

 consumed every bit of the plant. Cut 2 

 shows two plants growing side by side. 



The other plant I wish to mention is a 

 radish 1 found in the catalog of the Burgess 

 Seed Co., Galesburg, 

 Mich. Here is a clip- 

 ping from it. 



SAKURIJIMA RADISH. 



This is the giant radish 

 from Japan. Often attains 

 a weight of 15 pounds and 

 sometimes 20 or 25. A 

 great curiosity and a radish 

 of e.xtraordinary quality. 

 Flesh solid, firm, and brit- 

 tle, and of most excellent 

 flavor. Planted in the 

 spring, it keeps growing all 

 summer, right thru the hot- 

 test weather, and never 

 gets tough or pithy. Can 

 be eaten during the sum- 

 mer, when it is difficult to 

 grow other varieties, and 

 paratively poor ground. can also be kept late in the 



