54 GARDEN PROFITS 



by the builders. The yard has been completely 

 changed from the usual unattractive city ' clothes 

 yard' to a place of beauty and genuine utility." 



WHAT ONE WOMAN CAN DO WITH $IO 



I would be disappointed if you could not find 

 faults in some of these records, which you would 

 plan to better in your own garden. You may not 

 agree with the theory mentioned in the next account, 

 that forty-foot rows are too long for comfort, es- 

 pecially if you use a wheel hoe. But that is just 

 the sort of thing that can be settled best by each 

 individual. On the whole, though, I think a woman 

 is well on the road to success when she can attain 

 results such as those below. Moreover, she limited 

 herself to a definite expenditure, and did not exceed it. 



"Last year I decided to attempt a vegetable 

 garden, and for fear of failure, determined to limit 

 my outlay to ten dollars. Throughout the season 

 an account was kept of the produce from it, at 

 market prices, and I found that it yielded nearly 

 double the amount of my outlay. 



"The vacant land at the rear allowed a garden 

 plot forty-six by thirty feet. Early in March a plan 

 was made, using the notes taken in my neighbors' 

 gardens and following the more specific directions 

 on varieties and spacing found in reliable seed 

 catalogues. As I could think of nothing more 

 discouraging than to weed rows over forty feet long, 

 I decided to cut them across the centre with a path 

 two feet wide, distinguishing this walk by an edg- 

 ing of flowers. This made two sections, with rows 



