MONEY IN THE BACKYARD 15 



ing, brought on by store vegetables, to start it — an 

 impetus that I trust is not needed by many. But 

 the effort succeeded and so did the garden. It 

 consisted of about a quarter of an acre and the deso- 

 late appearance of "a waste of yellow sand with a 

 ditch to be filled in and a conglomeration of tin cans 

 and debris to be disposed of" almost discouraged 

 the prospective tillers of the soil. However, in 

 the spring, they used the winter's furnace ashes 

 to fill in the ravine, dug and leveled the garden, 

 and wheeled in several barrow loads of manure. 

 They prepared a fine seed-bed nine feet wide the 

 length of the garden, and in it grew seedlings for 

 later transplanting; they planted corn lengthwise 

 through the garden, between rows of other crops, 

 and kept about them a loose dust mulch. Later 

 they used the same space still further by sowing 

 squash among the hills of corn. The result was an 

 abundance of vegetables, sweet peas and other cut 

 flowers, as well as both vegetable and flower plants 

 to sell. Their assets were as follows: 



Peas $ 2.00 



Beans 1. 00 



Corn 12.00 



Tomatoes 2.00 



Cucumbers S-OO 



Other vegetables 4.00 



Value of flowers 10.00 



Cabbage plants 4.00 



Various plants sold . 3 . SO 



2,000 pansy plants in stock for spring sale . . 40.00 



Forget-me-not plants in stock for spring sale . . 5.00 



Sweet William plants in stock for spring sale . . 10.00 



Winter onions for early spring 15.00 



Total $113 5° 



