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no small amount of profit in robust health and vigor, as well as in the material products of 

 such labor. 



A recent writer says: &quot; I know a lady whose sensible doctor told her, twenty years ago, that 

 she was half gone with consumption, and that her only chance of life was to be in the open 

 air as much as possible. She accordingly commenced cultivating her garden, and a perfect 

 bower of paradise was her little yard. Was the soil poor, she enriched it. &quot;Were her varie 

 ties indifferent, she procured better. Nearly all the flowers were fragrant. Fifteen kinds of 

 roses bloomed under her hands, and a succession of flowers filled out the summer. One side 

 of the yard was covered with grapes. Peaches, plums, and raspberries were trained en 

 espalier, and choice squashes ripened on the roofs of the outhouses. Tomatoes were trained 

 to single poles and yielded luxuriantly; and ruby strawberries peeped out even from the 

 bleaching grass. She herself was as fresh and vigorous as you could expect one to be whose 

 half-decayed lung had left her with insufficient vitality; but her life was saved, and it has 

 been a happiness to herself and a blessing to others. She is right, too, when she says that 

 more than half the credit for the ornamentation of our dooryards and homes is due to the 

 ladies who urge the men to do their duty in this respect.&quot; 



