142 MY GROWING GARDEN 



contrast have also introduced another of the whole 

 orchard, to indicate how these dwarfs have found 

 prosperity in this rough red shale. Some growth, 

 isn't it? 



While I am writing of pictures, let me refer the 

 reader to Plate XXI, so that I may ask whether 

 the sight of orderly rows of growing vegetables is 

 anything else than pleasant? Celery coming fast, 

 beets and beans in abundance; carrots that are 

 creamy before cooking, kohlrabi that is a surprise; 

 experimental plantings of okra that I don't know 

 how to use and of big Chinese radishes that I don't 

 want to use; salsify for next winter's and chicory 

 for next spring's salad; tomatoes that are all tender 

 flesh and hmas that are "all to the good;" — doesn't 

 that sound as well as it looks — and tastes? 



And then the fruits; there are some peaches yet, 

 some plums, and the Green Mountain grapes have 

 ripened, as usual, by the time of my second trip 

 home. Indeed I am enjoying this growing garden, 

 and some others with me ! 



