ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



Go out into the country, oh ye flat dwell- 

 ers of the city, and make a home; have a 

 few rods, if no more, of your own ground 

 about you and till it, and tend it; the 

 flowers you raise will be sweeter and more 

 beautiful to you than any displayed in 

 florists' windows, and no vegetables that can 

 be bought will compare in flavor with those 

 you will raise yourself. If every woman 

 blessed with a place of her own would do 

 what she could to interest her humbler 

 neighbors, giving them seeds, plants and 

 shrubs from her own garden, telling how 

 they should be planted and cared for, and 

 interesting the children in raising flowers 

 and vegetables, the result would be not only 

 a beautified community, but a bond of sym- 

 pathy between people in all walks of life, 

 with a softening and refinement of char- 

 acter that comes from the spread of the love 

 of Nature. 



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