14 GARDEN PROFITS 



I kept no account of anything save the tomatoes. 

 Of these there was not a single spoiled or mis- 

 shapen fruit. If I had been disposed to sell them all 

 I should have had no difficulty in securing 20 cents 

 a pound for them. 



DOES HOEING PAY.'' WELL, RATHER ! 



"These results were achieved partly by the 

 exceptional length of the season. But I think that 

 the main reason for such splendid growth was the 

 fact that the entire plot was hoed every day during 

 the early part of the season and often in the latter 

 part. I gave frequent irrigation with water that 

 had passed through a leach of horse manure into 

 which was thrown every three weeks a handful of 

 sodium nitrate, about two pounds in all, at a cost of 

 12 cents, the water being applied plentifully to the 

 soil between the rows, and not immediately around 

 the roots. In this way the roots were encouraged 

 to reach out." 



Note the financial possibilities involved. Two 

 hundred and fifty pounds of tomatoes worth, at 

 her own estimate, $50.00 (not to put any price on 

 the culls and unripe fruit), from two dozen vines! 

 And then there were the flowers, which, to many 

 a gardener, would have paid for the comparatively 

 small amount of labor needed to hoe the whole 

 25-foot bed every day. 



WHAT A GARDEN DID FOR AN INVALID 



Another garden that developed from an unsightly 

 backyard, required an attack of ptomaine poison- 



