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CHAPTEE VI. 



A KITCHEN GARDEN. 



the full enjoyment of a country house, there 

 are few things more conducive than a large, 

 well-filled kitchen garden. The farmers generally, 

 with a wrong-headedness that is incomprehensible, 

 neglect one of the most important sources of supply 

 for the table ; they devote themselves to the heavy 

 crops the staples of agriculture that are scattered 

 through the fields, and overlook the vast additional 

 amount of food that may be concentrated in an acre. 

 They condemn themselves to the everlasting routine 

 of bread, potatoes, and salt meat, forgetting that the 

 labor of a few hours occasionally of themselves or 

 their children in the garden would furnish an agree 

 able, healthy, and nutritive variety of edibles. This, 

 being a matter of dollars and cents as well as health, 

 merited the closest attention from so practical a per 

 son as myself, and was taken in hand promptly, and 

 the account of my success carries me back a little 

 in matter of time. 



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