Miss Tiller's Vegetable Garden and the Money She Made by It

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. T 7ERY good pickles, said Mrs. Chose, y helping herself again (she always would have pickles for breakfast); but not equal to the ' Improved Long Green.' They'll snap like a pipe-stem. Mrs. Chose, I said, while Rose jumped up, and ran for her catalogue, I want a great many cucumbers. Can't have too many for me, said my gardening adviser. Shall we get some of those dear little early things, to begin with--and so have them all the season through? said Rose. If you want to lose your time and your money, patience thrown in, said Mrs. Chose. That's my experience. 'Dear little things' they've always been to me. I don't know whether it was my fault or theirs, but 'Early Russian' and 'Early Cluster' never did me a speck of good yet. But the catalogues say I began. O, well, broke in Mrs. Chose, catalogues cover the whole country, and the whole country ain't just alike. And glass and gardeners make a difference, I s'pose, though I've never tried 'em mnch. 'White Spine, ' and ' Improved Long Green, ' and 'New Jersey Hybrid, ' will be early enough, if you plant 'em right, and take care of 'em. And there's something of them. So it shall be, then, said Rose, noting the names. We'll try them all, for fun. Yes, but you mustn't plant 'em all together, said Mrs. Chose, or you may have to eat 'em together, too. Some things mix. They shall have the four corners of the garden, said Rose, laughing. Now, Aunt Bethia--what's next? Finish your breakfast, child, said Mrs. Chose. That's next. O! I have, said Rose. And I want our seeds just as soon as I can get them. We'll have cress, of course, and egg-plants. Curled, said Mrs, Chose, referring to the cress. And ' Improved N. Y. Purple, ' and 'Black Pekin, ' and ' Green Japanes...