16 GARDEN PROFITS 



with only three dollars and a half for seeds, etc., 

 as the cash outlay! 



Such results as these are worth working for. You, 

 too, can obtain them if you really set your mind 

 on it. So I am going to give you all the assistance 

 I can in the way of hints and instruction whereby 

 you can get the best and the most from small spaces. 

 If some of the schemes don't seem exactly to fit 

 your garden, you can use them as hints, and evolve 

 something along the same line to fit your own 

 needs. 



A NEW KIND OF ECONOMY IN THE GARDEN 



On a small lot especially a city place, try not 

 to waste anything. Unless your street is sprinkled 

 with oil, gather up the sweepings and the leaves 

 from your neighborhood, and compost them (that 

 is to say "compose a mixture") with other manure, 

 if you can get it, the waste from the garden, and 

 even table waste, which will not prove at all offensive 

 if kept covered. Furnace and stove ashes, when 

 sifted clear of clinkers, can be used to lighten the 

 garden soil especially if it is of the heavy clay type. 



PLANT EARLY AND SMILE AT YOUR NEIGHBORS 



In any garden, plant a little earlier and a little 

 later than is recommended general directions 

 have to be merely averages which successive sea- 

 sons often are not. So take advantage of the 

 favorable conditions, and in a good many instances 



