LESSON FOR THE FARM HOME 



L. H. Bailey, Director 

 Course for the Farm Home, Martha Van Rensselaer, Supervisor 



VOL. II. No. 33 



ITHACA, N. Y. 

 FEBRUARY i, 1913 



GARDEN SERIES No. 1 



VEGETABLE-GARDENING 



Albert E. Wilkinson 



Introduction by 



L. H. Bailey 



' I wish that Americans would make gardens even if there were no 

 hope that people would see them. The meaning of home has broadened 

 and deepened very much within a lifetime. To the plainest home of 



the middle class there 

 have been added a 

 few good pieces of 

 simple and useful 

 furniture, a little col- 

 lection of books good 

 at least to look at, 

 simple music, pictures 

 that have some mean- 

 ing and are not mere 

 wall decorations : may 

 we not now add a 

 garden? It does not 

 matter how small or 

 how large the garden 

 is. If it is small, it 

 will be condensed and 

 perhaps we shall ap- 

 preciate it the more. 

 " I step from the 



Fig. 30. — Necessary garden tools 



house, and at once I am released. I am in a new realm. This realm 

 has just been created, and created for me. I give myself over to the 



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