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Our vegetable gardens are often made too large. We 

 need not give as much space to vegetables alone. We have 

 learned to rotate our crops, to keep our rows constantly green, 

 replanting as fast as the old crop is removed, thus concentrating 

 our efforts and making for perpetual freshness. So they have 

 done in Europe, making every inch count. It is by far the best 

 way, and if we have not made it our way the time is at hand 

 to start. If hit-or-miss gardening proved fascinating exercise 

 and gave us something we delighted to chat about, how much 

 more can be gained by making our garden more scientific and 

 more beautiful. Surely peace and contentment work a very real 

 spell when we find them about us as we labor. Close at hand 

 there is sure to be a place for attractive little nooks and shelter 

 houses which Nature is ever willing to help you to embower. 



Beautiful on the hills overlooking the majesty of the Potomac, 

 in a wonderful garden setting, visitors find the fine old home of 

 the first great American. There at Mount Vernon, General 

 Washington, too, found time for vegetables. But he realized 

 keenly that garden crops had possibilities for beauty, and, so, 

 one hundred and fifty years and more ago, the Mount Vernon 

 gardens were laid out so that even vegetables contributed their 

 part to the charm of it all. The little camera glimpse pub- 

 lished here suggests the beauty and seemliness of the arrange- 

 ment of the vegetable garden and shows how nicely it was wedded 

 to the other true beauties of this fine old estate. Even today that 

 garden is still kept verdant and we find it much the same as it has 

 been for years and years. 



Here in America we reverence the memory of Washington 

 and like to hold him up as an example of what a true man 



