truck-garden

He's too old and crippled with rheumatism to attend to his truck-garden any more; so if you leave him the space for his house and a chicken-yard, he'll be satisfied.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

Juan Guillén married a peasant-girl, bought a truck-garden, and a wine-cave, had several children, and was one of the most respectable highwaymen in the district.

Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

Then I went over the bunk-house and the other buildings, and every corner of the truck-garden, calling as I went.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

It's just as well I didn't try to rush the season by getting too much of my truck-garden planted.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

I arrives around the end of the shed just in time to see her slide down a steep grade through somebody's truck-garden and sink down upon her heaving flank in a little hollow.

From Place to Place 1910

When he is sick he sends out of town for patent medicines, and for ten years he worked in his truck-garden, fighting floods and droughts, bugs and blight, to save something like a hundred dollars, which he put in a mail-order bank in St. Louis.

In Our Town William Allen White 1906

Legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump-speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy-farm or truck-garden.

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Various 1905

But it was the same as letting a goat into a truck-garden or mixing soda and acid.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

The finest flower of breeding blossoms above the level of the practical, and that is why you do not find it growing in the huge truck-garden of our age, save in corners where it has not yet been uprooted.

Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899

It is through the dairy farm, the truck-garden, the trades, the commercial life, largely, that the Negro is to find his way to respect and confidence.

The Future of the American Negro Booker T. Washington 1885