GETTING INTO THE GROUND 47 



not of the superlative excellence of those growing 

 in the warm darkness. Therefore I shall every 

 March hereafter see to it that similar conditions 

 are provided for some of my rhubarb plants. 



During the latter half of March the hotbeds and 

 coldframes have been made useful to start things 

 for the early outdoor garden, and to push ahead 

 the long-season flower items particularly. Asters, 

 cosmos, salvia, petunia and many other seeds are 

 in or germinating or up. To have a long season 

 with tomatoes, plants sown in late February are 

 now transplanted to pots, and they will be kept 

 going right along. There are really earlier sorts 

 for these advance plantings — ^Field's Early June 

 is one that made good almost in Jime with us. 



It was rather hard to get my business mind to 

 take up garden problems in the earlier years of this 

 growing garden, but now the family jogs me if I 

 slip, and my son is ready to do the actual early 

 work with that particularity which means success. 

 We are determined to eat from Breeze Hill garden 

 as early and as late as prevision can arrange, and 

 so there is thought to plan the succession for a 

 long season of better things than any money can 

 bring. For eye pleasing, we want flowers early — 

 they are with us already, as I have noted, while 

 snow yet remains — and we want them in sight 



