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MY GROWING GARDEN 



that one can notice little difference between peas 

 and potatoes? The existing exalted prices might 

 even be increased, if there was the intention to 

 produce the article, so far as it could be produced. 

 The prevailing idea of the restaurateurs seems to 

 be to make vegetables so undesirable in taste, and 

 so costly in money, that they will entirely give 

 way to flesh foods. Of course, in this unwar- 

 ranted observation I am referring only to the 

 grosser and transportable vegetables like some 

 beans, carrots, cabbage, cauliflow^er, potatoes and 

 the hke, and not to the higher literature, so to 

 speak, of evanescently flavored peas, beans, corn 

 and some others — they belong only to the actual 

 gardeners, and are quite impossible to ordinary 

 commerce. 



Celery has proved to be one of the vegetables 

 that find encouraging conditions in the rough shale 

 of this garden. In this July month it is our custom 

 to transplant several rows of the previously grown 

 little "celeriets," and to watch them and to water 

 them with the completest care until they are 

 accustomed to the change and enjoying the hot 

 sun. At first I had deep trenches dug, with the cor- 

 responding deeper soil preparation, so that the 

 little plants were in a narrow valley until the 

 laborious ''earthing" later had leveled them. This 



