DETAILS AND DOLLARS MY GARDEN. 8 1 



seemed to grow something ; his vegetables took 

 up so much room, were so close together that 

 the weeds had not a chance to squeeze them- 

 selves in. He worked upon the theory that 

 one square foot of garden properly manured 

 and properly attended to was more productive 

 than four square feet half taken care of, and his 

 results proved the soundness of his ideas. It 

 was owing to this neighbor's advice that my 

 second summer's work in my little garden, for I 

 was determined not to give the ground up 

 although it had proved a costly toy, were far 

 more satisfactory in every way than the first. I 

 discovered that my neighbor's total expenses 

 of the year for his garden, which was a far 

 larger one than mine, were less than $10, nine 

 tenths of which sum went for manure. He 

 did all the work himself, got his seeds and 

 plants from neighboring gardens, and the value 

 of his product exceeded $100 during the sum- 

 mer. This was something like gardening, and 

 if one man not a Hercules could do it, why not 

 I ? My second summer showed that by devot- 

 ing an average of two hours a day to my little 

 garden patch I could save about fifty dollars in 

 the vegetable bill of the family. Estimating 



