XI 



LEFT-OVERS 



HERE are more ways than one to secure 



A fertilizers and fine soil for the small gar- 

 den. If sward is cut from the roadside, 

 chopped into small pieces, and stored away 

 in some corner of the yard that is convenient 

 to get at, and the soapsuds from wash-day are 

 poured over it each week, it will, in a short 

 time, if stirred frequently, become a most 

 excellent substitute for leaf-mold. The grass- 

 roots, when decayed, will become a vegetable 

 fertilizer which will be found extremely valu- 

 able in the culture of such plants as require 

 a light, rich soil, especially when small. 



Some quite artistic effects can be secured 

 in the vegetable-garden by the exercise of a 

 little thought. The large-leaved beet has 

 foliage of a dark, rich crimson quite as orna- 

 mental as that of many plants used by gar- 

 deners to produce the ^'tropical effects'' 



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