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raencemeut of farm work, but little time needs to be taken from other 

 work to do the planting, and much of the care of it can be done by 

 the children, and odd jobs by farm help. Every farmer's garden should 

 be set with all the small fruits, which will require but little attention 

 for years. 



I remember reading an able article several years ago, by the late 

 Geo. Geddes, of Syracuse, N. Y., who was one of the best writers (as 

 well as farmers) on agricultural subjects, that I have read, in which 

 he says, that the average farmer entirely underestimates the value of 

 the products of a good garden, as it would supply a large part of the 

 living of the family, and at the same time increase the health and 

 pleasure of the whole family, workmen and all. I can fully confirm 

 the statement, by my own experience in early life as a farmer, and 

 later as a gardener to a small extent. 



TOWN OR CITY GARDENING. 



The writer cultivates a vegetable garden in this city, and has for 

 several years, making no pretentions to scientific skill, but has been 

 successful in obtaining a large quantity of vegetables and small fruits 

 from a small plat of ground; all the bed vegetables — corn, potatoes, 

 beens, squashes, tomatoes, melons, cucumbers, pie plant, horse radish, 

 lettuce, radishes, etc., etc., with an abundance of currants and rasp- 

 berries^ and a much larger quantity than the family can consume. I 

 have raised five or six crops of radishes, and the last season two crops 

 of beans on the same land; the seed of the second was from the first 

 crop on the same ground, and we had an abundance of string beans 

 before the frost, and if I had planted them as early as I could, we 

 could have had shell beans before frost. The plat of the second crop, 

 a beautiful light green, after all the other vegetables ripened and 

 passed, were as handsome as any portion of my flower garden. Every 

 person understands the advantage of being able to gather from one's 

 own garden any of the vegetables or fruits over those obtained from 

 the green grocer, which may have remained over for days and with- 

 ered, or far from being fresh. I regard the labor bestowed upon the 

 cultivation of my garden as one of the best investments I could make; 

 the result is very great pleasure and greatly improved health, there- 

 fore I make the most of it, and do all the work myself except cutting 

 the grass on the lawn 



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