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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



-this Modern Soap 



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keep your back straight from the hips up, 

 but it pays at the end of a hundred hills. 



OTHER CROPS 



Meanwhile we were paying little attention 

 to our growing cabbages, till we discovered 

 the big fat green worm was thriving in our 

 absence. We gave him a bath composed of a 

 cup of salt, a tablespoonful of soda, and a 

 tablespoonful of red pepper to a gallon of 

 water; he gave us little trouble thereafter. 



But the pride of our garden was our 

 tomato patch. Whether it was on account 

 of our home-grown seed, or the light sandy 

 soil, or the wide space between the plants, 

 our tomatoes were ready for the table two 

 or three weeks ahead of any others in town. 

 The vines were not handsome to look at, 

 for we had not staked them, and they strag- 

 gled all over the ground. But they had 

 plenty of room to straggle, and to get the 

 sun on all sides, and they bore amazingly. 

 For some weeks we commanded corner 

 prices, getting a dollar a bushel. By the 

 time they became more plentiful and the 

 price dropped to sixty cents, we had secured 

 a market for all we could supply. 



Late in August the insertion of an adver- 

 tisement in the village weekly paper brought 

 a surprising response. After September 22d 

 the demand for pickles was lively. 



SALAD PICKLES 



Our onion crop was practically a failure. 

 The little white onions were in demand for 

 a variety of salad pickles, and we could 

 have sold more if we had had them, at ten 

 cents a quart. It is some trouble to make 

 salad pickles, but they are a delicate morsel. 

 You want cucumbers large enough to slice 

 across to the size of a big nickel. Cover a 

 gallon, sliced, with salt water over night. 

 Slice with them one pint small white onions. 

 Wash in fresh water, add one-quarter pound 

 mustard seed, one-quarter pound celery 

 seed, cover with hot vinegar; when cool 

 stir in two tablespoonfuls fresh olive oil. 

 Set away in a covered crock. These are 

 sure and do not spoil. 



MUSTARD PICKLES 



The easiest kind of pickles to put up is 

 the mustard pickle. There is no prelimi- 

 nary salting. To one gallon of cold vine- 

 gar add a cup of salt, a cup of sugar, a cup 

 of ground mustard. Pour the mixture over 

 as many cucumbers as it will cover. Set 

 away in crocks. 



It was a relief when the frost came. My 

 only regret was that, after all the patient 

 labor, only one muskmelon out of the twenty 

 hills was ripe enough to eat. We had planted 

 two rows down the middle of our cucumber 

 patch. Nearly a hundred melons set on 

 the vines, and the crop was not wholly 

 wasted, for they made delicious sweet 

 pickles which sold for 35 cents a quart. 



The borders in the garden were planted 

 with sweet peas, asters, and mignonette. 



We put in something more than one hun- 

 dred and sixty hours' labor, and netted above 

 expenses $25.25, not counting the late cab- 

 bage crop and the fun and exercise of it all. 



Michigan. Mary Frances Wright. 



When Nature forgets the 

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