Technical World Magazine

A SUCCESSFIL GARDENER AT 6E\EXTV,
Aged Italiiin wnm.in sitting out cabbagi-s.
and a little surplus to sell : then they received
instruction and experience, which
proved of great value the following- season.
At the end of the second season,
when the}^ were assigned enough additional
land to bring their holding up to
about one-third of an acre, they reported
that they had had a supply of fresh vegetables
for themselves during the summer,
and that they had put up for winter use
twelve bushels of potatoes, fifteen quart
jars of tomatoes, seven quart jars of
beets, ten quart jars of string beans,
eight quart jars of lima beans, six quart
jars of c(^rn and six quart jars of peas,
and had sold to their neighbors $112.00
worth of product.
Many of the gardeners, after a few
years' experience, become quite ex])ert.
'I'he old colored man in the illustration
reported crops last season to the value of
about $250.00 from the half acre he cultivated,
llis main croji was celery, from
which he got about $70. 1 le had sold a
successful crop of peas from that same
portion of the land before he put the
celery in it.
One man. who was allowed to do some
of this preparatory work was about to be
put out of his home and his goods sold.
The superintendent arranged with the
constable to postpone the sale until the
man was able to earn a little. Afterwards,
this man applied for and was assigned
one of the family gardens. He
was enabled to keep his family together,
and himself in good condition until he
seciuxd his old work, later in the year.
Striking examples are often witnessed
of the way many families appreciate tlic
opportimity to work in the gardens, and
of the way these people .sympathize with
each other. A number of gardeners who
had cultivated land for several .reasons
and had received great help from them,
came to the su]")erintendent anil askeil to
surrender their plots that those might be
ofiven to others who were in greater need
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