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and never get angry. My time is precious, and 

 some people are talkative. The best way to handle 

 them is to listen and move quickly before they com- 

 mence to talk another blue streak. Cheerfulness, 

 with sometimes just a dash of sauce, will help in 

 selling produce. Over-measurement is just as bad 

 as under-measurement. People of good sense know 

 that the best can't be raised for nothing. 



" Novelties are expensive, but, as I seldom fail, 

 they pay. Pocahontas, a new sugar corn put out 

 by Henderson, is the earliest and best I have ever 

 had. Burpee's New Bush Lima beans are good. 

 Outermont Beauty melon failed, a fault of my own. 

 Silver Self-Blanching celery is beautiful. Besides, 

 these I tried some new nameless varieties. Among 

 them was Burpee's new lettuce, which is fine. In- 

 vincible and Cornet asters are the grandest flowers 

 I raise. The cut flowers put in clean water every 

 day will stay fresh for four weeks. 



" From 48 hills I sold $7 worth of watermelons and 

 $15 worth of radishes, raised between the melons. 

 From a patch 15 x 40 feet I sold $40 worth of let- 

 tuce and took from the same ground a crop of 

 endive. My largest crop was radishes, which 

 amounted to $77.25. The garden is 100 feet broad 

 and about 300 feet long. I cleared $400, including 

 $25 received as first premium for one display of 

 vegetables. About 100 varieties were raised on this 

 plot of ground." 



WESTERN WOMAN'S GARDEN 



Mrs. H. M. Woodward of Illinois writes of her 

 profitable garden as follows : *' Our plot of ground 

 is 150 X 165 feet, and we have the use of another 

 lot near by which is 50 x 165 feet. Nearly half of 



