RESULTS FROM A SMALL GARDEN.
[To me EDITOR or 71AL " SPF.CTATOR.")
Sie,—Before now I have urged iit your columns, and elsewhere, that people would be both patriotic and thrifty to cultivate that which they have—namely, the universal little backyard garden- The result of such an effort may prove more stimulating then mere precept. In February of this year we dug a garden measuring fifteen by nineteen feet (not our own) of trodden grass, with narrow, disused borders which were cumbered with two overgrown shrubs and a decoyed ornamental (!) tree stump—virginia creeper on two walls. The soil was shallow chalk. It was dressed with one pound of sulphate of ammonia and such soot us could be procured from fireplace; later was indulged with a shilling bag of fertilizer. The result of planting was nine pounds of early potatoes and one pound of King Edwards; several cooking. of turnips (a household of five), scarlet runners (round the walls), and kohl-rabi; two pounds of tomatoes (would have been more but for early September gales), some lettuce and spinach, a few onion,. and a good row each of carrots and beetroot. The garden also provided a seed-bed of leeks (mainly for planting elsewhere), some of which, with late turnips, are now coming on. The only advan- tage yielded by Nature was aspect—south-west. The total outlay was three shillings; the value of produce can easily be estimated.—
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