be nicer to ent than a smaller, loss handsome one. If you will stiulv 

 this subject I feel sure you will many times in the future be gratified 

 that you did. If you plant some melon seed you may get ideas of value, 

 by doing two things: First, plant a few hills of a large and a few hills 

 of a small variety. Second, plant a few hills of a variety that has a 

 yellow or salmon colored flesh, and a few hills uf a variety witli green 

 flesh. You can find out about the si7.e of melons and color of flesh by 

 looking in the seed catalogues, or writing to the State Experiment Sta- 

 tion at LaFayette. After you learn this you will know which ones 

 you will wish to plant. 



Sireef Corn may be planted at different times during the summer, 

 but for the early crop it should be planted from the 1st to the 10th of 

 May. Plant in rows three feet apart and about three feet in the row, 

 making three hills across the plat. Now it may be that after the plants 

 are nicely up, a cu.t-worm may steal into your garden and cut off some 

 of the young com or cauliflower plants. If so, you can probably find 

 him hiding under a clod of dirt close by the plant, when he may l)e 

 dug out and killed. Now to prevent any more injury I would suggest 

 that if fresh clover be taken, soaked in a solution of Paris green and 

 water, and then scattered about the hills of corn and among the 

 cauliflower plants it will destroy these cut-woriiis, as tiiey will tal<e 

 the clover instead of the vegetables. But since Paris green is very 

 poisonous, and as your father will know better how to use it, I would 

 suggest that you ask him to do this for you. 



There axe a number of other experiments which might be suggested, 

 but I think these will be all that you can attend to in one season. 



The radish is an interesting plant, and vai'ies in size from the little 

 red ones, hardly larger than a hickory-nut to the white Japanese ones, 

 resembling big turnips. Eadish seeds sprout soon, and the plants 

 ^row Very rapidly. You plant some, and, lo, in a very few weeks they 

 are ready for the table. If you are quite impatient to see things grow 

 fast, as some children are, then try radishes. People eat the radish 

 because it is a juicy, tender, peculiar flavored vegetable that is eatable 

 raw. How much do the varieties differ in productiveness, flavor and 

 tenderness? A row of several kinds in your garden will tell quite a 

 story. 



It may not have occurred to you, but the fact is, almost any indus- 

 trious boy or girl, who loves to see plants grow, can on a very few of 

 these little pieces of ground grow many vegetables and earn some 

 money for himself. What a pleasure to get up early in the bright, 

 sunny days of spring and summer, and go into the garden and work 



