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households. Were it all saved, the result in abundant crops 

 would astonish even practical gardeners. This plan is in 

 operatiofi at the Horticultural School with which the writer 

 is connected, though in a somewhat different way. Instead of 

 using the material in a liquid form, absorbents are used, and 

 the result is an abundant supply of fertilizers for garden 

 purposes at a very low cost. 



The writer himself uses a chain-pump, as described in 

 this chapter, in the business operations of the gardening 

 firm, to which he belongs, at West Newton, Mass. 



APPENDIX C. 



The after culture of the strawberry plantation was this : 

 The leaves that lay thickly scattered over the soil decayed, 

 and as soon as the crop was gone they were, lightly forked 

 into the ground. Through the summer and fall frequent 

 stirrings of the ground and the persistent cutting away of all 

 the runners made the most of the work. The rest was 

 merely to keep things clean and nice. 



The work for the next season was but a repetition of this, 

 with one exception, when the crop was picked, the whole 

 affair was ploughed up, and the land given over to some other 

 crop. Whether the land was ever planted with strawberries 

 again is more than can be said, as the writer has not visited 

 the Wellson family since. 



