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to our breaking sod a magnificent crop of shoulder- 

 high weeds had flourished. 



"In the third season, 1909, the personnel of the 

 partnership was changed, two members having 

 moved from the city, but two other friends took 

 their places, with just as gratifying results. 

 Contrary to the prophecy, our friendship has 

 been cemented, rather than broken, by our cooper- 

 ative digging, hoeing, watering, and harvesting." 



TRANSPLANTING; ONE WAY TO SAVE SPACE 



I have already mentioned the value of a hotbed 

 for summer use in raising plants later to be set in 

 empty rows. For want of a hotbed, any small 

 plot in the garden may be used as a seedbed when 

 the days become warm, providing the soil is kept in 

 excellent, fine condition. Tomatoes, lettuce, egg- 

 plant, and the cabbage family are especially adapted 

 to this filling-in system, but I note in the records of 

 one 15 x 30 foot garden that cucumbers, squash, bush 

 beans and kohlrabi were also treated in this way. 

 A plot as small as that is within almost any one's 

 reach, as is also the ten minutes a day that was 

 needed to care for it. Whether similar results are as 

 available must be determined by your energy and your 

 individual application of up-to-date methods. This 

 is another garden in which the moving spirit was a 

 woman. Her account of the season's work is as follows: 



A TEN-MINUTE-A-DAY GARDEN 



"Many possessors of small pieces of ground never 

 think of raising their own vegetables because they 



