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Tennis Ball lettuce, salsify, Swiss chard, carrots, 

 parsnips and beets. 



I had gone to the camp from the city simply to 

 start this garden and could not remain to watch it. 

 I returned, however, about May thirteenth for a 

 second visit and more work! At this time I planted 

 (necessarily dangerously early) one dozen early 

 and one dozen late tomato plants and set the hoop 

 frames for their support. And at the same time 

 I set out one dozen Sweet Bell pepper plants. 

 Then I made successive sowings of the earliest 

 vegetables. 



This brought me midway of my garden where 

 the first and second sowings of peas were begin- 

 ning to show themselves. While sowing the 

 third row of peas I discovered a big-leaved 

 vine near the first sowings, and thinking this per- 

 chance might be a melon I left it undisturbed. As 

 the peas bore fruit and "passed by," it showed 

 such a desire to spread that I pulled up the withered 

 pea vines and gave the intruder a chance to show 

 itself. It spread over the entire space once occu- 

 pied by the six rows of peas, and yellow blossoms 

 appeared at intervals. By the time the peas were 

 all gathered this vine was bearing huge, green, 

 melon-looking fruit, which, upon inquiry, I found 

 was the vegetable marrow so much used in England, 

 but of which I find no mention in seed books. 

 Inside it resembles a squash, and we prepared it 

 for the table as we did egg plant. When fried, it 

 was a fine substitute for meat at lunch, during the 

 entire hot season. This year the intruder will be 

 an invited guest in my garden. 



May eighteenth found me preparing to return 

 to the city and one of my last acts was planting 

 Golden Bantam corn. Nothing could be more 

 delicious; it is golden in color, full of milk and 

 honey, dainty to serve and seems to have reached 

 perfection. We frequently stripped these dainty 

 ears of corn down to the last thin, paper-like husks 

 and boiled and served the corn with that soft 

 covering on. This was an innovation and served 

 to retain the juices as well as the heat. 



A series of corn plantings brought me to a row 

 for dwarf stringless beans, then a row of Lima beans 

 and another of the stringless beans. Then rows of 

 the early potato, enough to supply us through two 

 months, enabling us to dig them when so new we 

 could rub off the thin skin and serve them entire 

 in a rich cream sauce. 



Summer squash and cucumbers completed the 

 vegetable garden; with the exception of parsley, 

 which formed a border to the line of flowers along 

 the paths. My permanent chive and mint beds 

 are near the garden wall where the roots can lie 

 undisturbed by plow or hoe. 



These facts prove that my garden was really a 

 success; it was two weeks earlier than any neighbor- 

 ing garden, and it supplied the summer table 

 for four adults. No one in our locality had a 

 dinner party that did not receive from me a long 

 shallow basket filled with all kinds of vegetables, 

 washed, cleaned, tied in bunches, tops down, 

 graced with parsley and mint, and topped off with 

 a bunch of blue bachelor buttons, nasturtiums or 

 asters. Before summer was over my garden had 

 become famous. 



October found a profusion of good things coming 

 along, but Jack Frost came stealing over the wall. 

 The tireless cooker was the means of preserving, 

 in glass, entire stringless beans that look as if they 

 had grown in the glass, tomatoes, small carrots, 

 Swiss chard greens, and Swiss chard stalks (which 

 are delicious used as asparagus is used, especially 

 as a foundation for a salad), pickled onions and 

 tomatoes and cucumber pickle. The parsnips 

 and salsify I left in the ground for early spring use. 

 A frost -proof closet built in the cellar of the camp 

 contains all these goodies. 



The wild fruits, too, have their place there. 

 Three varieties of blueberries and huckleberries 

 thrive on our acres, also raspberries, strawberries 

 and blackberries. Each of these were gathered 

 and preserved and shelved to await the coming of 

 Thanksgiving, Christmas and Washington's birth- 

 day house parties. 



For this luxurious harvest I give the credit to 

 dry irrigation. I cultivated deeply and thor- 

 oughly before planting; and with my little two- 

 wheeled machine cultivator kept the soil loose and 

 free from weeds. I resorted to the hose only half 

 a dozen times, and then in the middle of August 



