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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1919 



Micbells $1 Vegetable Garden 



Grow your own vegetables, pick 

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12 Most Profitable Varieties 



i. Swiss Chard, Giant Lucullus. 



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4. Corn, Golden Bantam. 



5. Beans, Fordhook Bush Lima. 



6. Beans, Michell's Improved Strain String- 

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7. Lettuce, Michell's Allright. 



8. Beet, Michell's Ideal. 



9. Radish, Cardinal Globe Improved 

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10. Carrot, Michell's Orange Beauty. 



11. Tomato, Michell's Crackerjack. 



12. Beans, Boston Navy (for winter). 



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Grape Growing at Home 



is the simplest form of fruit raising. Vines grow 

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Hubbard's Grape Catalogue for 1919 

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 the vines, how to use the fruit. Send for a copy. 

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A Daughter of the Land 



By Gene Stratton-Porter 

 A real flesh-and-blood story of American womanhood 



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FOR many years past I have been grow- 

 ing vegetable and flower plants in the 

 springtime for my own use and the 

 surplus for my friends and neighbors. 

 A year ago last spring I had several "flats" of 

 tomato plants standing in such a position that 

 passersby could see them. One afternoon two 

 ladies came into the yard and asked me if I sold 

 them; upon being informed that I did not they 

 asked if I would make an exception and let them 

 have a dozen, which I did and for which I charged 

 them thirty cents a dozen. As I had quite a 

 number of plants more than I needed both for 

 myself and friends an idea struck me to place a 

 small sign on the arbor offering tomato plants 

 for sale. In just four days after placing that 

 sign every plant was gone! 



At that time I had a small glassed-in "box," 

 as I called it, under the back porch which I made 

 myself by removing the lattice work usually 

 put in such places and substituting glass, utilizing 

 the heat from the cellar. After my success in 

 the spring of 1917, I became emboldened and 

 last spring I grew one thousand tomato plants 

 together with cabbage and lettuce in "flats." 

 All these plants were started in the "box" and 

 after being transplanted in other flats were then 

 placed in coldframes. I made it a point to pro- 

 perly "harden" these plants so that they could 

 be planted outside much sooner than would be 

 possible with plants from a greenhouse or cold- 

 frame. Well, I sold every one of those plants 

 together with seventy-five Geraniums and a 

 number of other bedding flower plants. My 

 seed cost me $1.25 and the bedding plants did 

 not cost me anything as they were all made from 

 cuttings from plants which I had on hand. Al- 

 together I took in $67 for plants last spring so 

 you can easily see what my profits were. 



I had always grown for exhibition Chrysan- 

 themums for my own amusement, but last spring 

 I started three dozen instead of the usual dozen. 

 As I understand the method of growing them I 

 have always had complete success. I paid 

 special attention to three of these plants last 

 summer and grew them as one would for exhibi- 

 tion purposes. I made wire frames in the shape 

 of an umbrella each three feet in diameter and 

 three feet high from rim of pot. The varieties 

 were Tiger, Dr. Enguehard, and Wells Late 

 Pink; one of each. Each of these plants carries 

 from forty (Wells Pink) to seventy-five (Tiger) 

 large flowers. I received permission from our 

 local druggist to place them in his window and 

 they were only there three days when I sold the 

 three for $15. The remaining twenty-seven 

 plants which were grown in six inch pots and 

 carried from three to six blooms J readily dis- 

 posed of at from #1 to $2 each. In all I received 

 $52 for my thirty Chrysanthemums. That 

 made #119 which I received by combining a 

 little business with pleasure. 



Last September I built a "lean to" green- 

 house against the south side of my residence, 

 ten feet wide and fifteen feet long. In this 

 house (which is heated in very cold weather 

 with a small oil heater) I expect to grow 

 enough plants next spring to pay my taxes, 

 insurance, and water rates. 



I might add that I have grown all kinds of 

 tomatoes; but there is one which for the average 

 home garden has certainly gone "over the top" 

 with me and that is the Livingston Globe. It 

 is in a class by itself; being almost blight proof 

 and as early as Earliana and continuing to bear 

 until frost. As for lettuce just try a few heads 

 of Burpee's Way-a-head if you want something 

 in the way of earliness and positive heading. — 

 W. H. Drescher, New Jersey. 



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