232 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Children's Home Garden Reports. 



BY ROGER NEWTON PERRY, WORCESTER, MASS. 



(11 years old.) First Prize, 1905. 



My papa let me have a little land, 44 by 25 feet. He let me use the 

 horse and plow to begin my garden. This was April 1. 



Last fall the ground was covered with horse manure. I plowed this 

 in, then took my spade, rake, and hoe and made the ground smooth. 

 This took me a long time for I got tired after working a while. 



I made me a hotbed out of an old window and frame, 2 by 3 feet, putting 

 horse manure into it first and then dirt. Grandpa gave me my seeds. 



April 22 I sowed cabbage, lettuce, and tomato seed in my hotbed. 

 April 19 sowed sweet peas two inches deep, and radishes one-half inch. 

 April 24 sowed Gradus peas two and one-half inches deep and two rows 

 of beets one inch deep. April 29 planted corn, six kernels in a hill, and 

 sowed parsley, parsnip, and turnip seeds two and one-half inches deep. 



May 4 planted potatoes. I cut my potatoes leaving two eyes on a 

 piece and planted one piece in a hill. May 15 set cabbage and lettuce 

 raised in my hotbed and planted, in hills, my pole beans. I put a pole 

 six feet high to each hill. 



June 6 sold my radishes and thinned my beets. June 15 chickens got 

 out and ate my lettuce up. Oh! but I was mad. June 29 ate first beet 

 from my garden. 



July 25 dug trench a foot deep, put in three inches manure, covered 

 over four inches of dirt, and set in celery plants that grandpa gave me. 

 I banked it with dirt to the leaves when it was six inches high; as fast as 

 it grew I kept it banked. 



My papa bought the cornstalks for the horses. I raised my vegetables 

 to sell and not for exhibition. I have made S9.91 on my garden and put 

 this money in the bank. I hope the others have done as well. 



October 16, 1905, 



