Dear Sir, 
It is with pride and complete satisfaction that I am writing you 
in reference to the results obtained by the use of Q.R. sent to me by 
your Maye E. Bruce about I year ago. 
Your letter stated that you would appreciate a report on my 
resi: obtained by the use of Q.R. 
[ am primarily interested in the growing of Gladioli. I garden 
two garden spots with two distinct types of soil. Garden No. I is 
located in the center of a community Garden Spot, which was previously 
a slew and very unsightly. The ground there is nothing but peat bog. 
Owing to the location of my plot in this community garden, which 
is in the center, I was watched very closely by other gardeners and 
was the center of a lot of comment, which sometimes would go as far 
as to call me a screwball, but as the summer went on and the garden 
developed the very ones that poked the most fun at me asked the 
greatest number of questions in reference to compost. Where I got 
the idea from? How I made it? Where I got the Herbs to treat it 
with and what the Herbs were, and also your mailing address ? 
I planted Cobbler potatoes and harvested a 10 quart pail to every 
two hills. Here in our country Cobblers are a white potato and, if 
grown in peat, when boiled turn black. My potatoes grown in compost 
when boiled stay white and when mashed fluff up beautifully and have 
a distinct flavor. I grew tomatoes in this same peat with vines that 
stood 5 ft. tall, with a vine 1 inch thick above the roots which came out 
of the ground, and the vines completely loaded with fruit. My 
neighbors grew beautiful vines covered with blossoms, which never 
set fruit but fell off the vines like snowflakes. 
My garden No. 2, which is a very unsatisfactory soil, was at 
one ti.. 2 just a hole in the ground in a rather restricted residential 
district. The City used it as a dump for the sweepings off the streets 
and the neighbors dumped their ashes there to fill it up. All in all it 
is a very unsatisfactory soil. I have gardened this spot for three years 
and have hauled in sand and top soil from excavations made in the 
community, which has helped a great deal. 
This year I have made compost and had marvelous results 
with my Gladioli, Delphiniums, Bench Roses and particularly my 
strawberries. I didn’t have compost enough to compost either garden 
completely, so it gave me an excellent chance to make the comparison, 
with and without compost. 
» Sincerely, 
Hf Sigs Barer 
MINNEAPOLIS 4. 
Minn. 
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