THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER. 



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a year they will be well rooted, and can be used to 

 take the place of any of the old plants that are worn 

 out or injured by insects. 



CHAPTER X. 



Ti)G mwum^vi OF 



TRG mf)OLe mATTGR. 



tqCTOBER days, and every gar- 

 den finds its crop of facts, 

 fruits and figures. My hand- 

 kerchief garden in this year 

 of grace, 1888, gave a variety 

 of good things each in its season, all 

 of which were eaten with a cheerful 

 spirit. And herewith are the facts 

 and figures. There were dry days 

 and wet, total failures and big suc- 

 cesses, weeds and bugs, lots of good, 

 hard work, and altogether a fair return for the labor 

 and money spent. Once or twice the crops overran 

 the home market. The Early Jersey Wakefield and 

 Early Summer cabbages ripened at about the same 

 time, the first heads coming July 15th and the last 

 being disposed of August 8th. A family of three can 

 hardly master twelve heads ripe at one time, and as 

 the industrious slug was always ready to lend a hand 

 a large part of the crop was sacrificed on the altar of 

 friendship. It was the same with cauliflowers. 

 Eighteen Early Snowballs at one time was a little 



