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ground to the celery. In June we got all the cauli- 

 flower, beans, radishee, young onions, lettuce, 

 mustard, rhubarb and asparagus we could use. 

 We quit cutting asparagus June 15, to let the plants 

 make roots for next year. Parsnips were now putout. 



"July was easy. Not much to do but hoe. 

 Beets swelled fast. Onions got big and round and" 

 lay basking in the sun. The dwarf scarlet zinnias 

 absorbed so much sunshine in daytime that they 

 themselves shone late into the dusk. Sweet peas 

 bore prodigiously. Besides hoeing after every 

 shower, there were, in July, stakes to set and plants 

 to tie up. Dahlias, gladioli, tomatoes, chrysan- 

 themums, even hollyhocks, had to be staked and 

 tied. As fast as one crop got off the ground another 

 was put in. Asters began to make a great showing. 

 July 18 tomatoes were ripe — two weeks late. 

 On the 23d the last of the onions, about a bushel 

 and a half, was dug. Tomatoes now began to 

 bear well. 



"August, too, was easy. Asters still made a show. 

 We had the best dahlias, in town. We got ^4 worth 

 of Caroline Testout roses. The last of August 

 beans and lettuce were planted for the last time. 



" September was August over again. The garden 

 still made a great show but the work had been done. 

 Celery was watered. September 23 the first of it 

 was banked up. In October the last of it was 

 banked and boarded up to blanch. 



"The first two weeks in October we had a good 

 show of dahlias and pompom chrysanthemums. 

 In vegetables we had green beans, beets, mustard, 



