82 LIBERTY AND A LIVING. 



that the garden work begins on the 1st of May 

 and ends on the 1st of September, we have 

 four months, or 120 days, during which I gave 

 two hours a day, or 240 hours, to my garden. 

 At ten hours a day this represents twenty-four 

 days or a month's work. At my regular pro- 

 fession I can make $200 or more during the 

 month, so that at first view the occupation of 

 raising vegetables does not appear well, finan- 

 cially speaking. Upon the other hand, con- 

 sidering that these two hours a day were to me 

 hours of genuine enjoyment and that the work 

 unquestionably did me good in every way, I 

 can say that the garden was a success. 



A good many years have passed since I 

 began my little garden out in New Jersey. In 

 the course of events I found myself compelled 

 to give up playing at garden and to move back 

 to New York. Newspaper life takes all or 

 nothing out of a man, and I was by no means 

 ready or able to neglect serious work which 

 paid me a very fair living in order to amuse 

 myself in a Jersey garden. But during those 

 years of experiment I had learned a good deal 

 about practical gardening. I learned enough 

 to know that with less than three hours' work 



