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added delicacy and freshness which comes to each of us as we 

 sit about the family board. 



Do flowers grace the table where our friends and ourselves 

 foregather? If they do, we know how they add to the joy and 

 communal good fellowship of the meal. In our vegetable gar- 

 den beautiful there will be plenty of such flowers and thus we 

 can gain the joy of them at a trifling expense and a trifling 

 effort. We cannot but vote such a garden worth while. But 

 how enhance it, how make it a vegetable garden beautiful 

 which will feed the finest phases of our natures. Why, that is 

 just where this little books aims to help you, that is where we 

 make our bow and offer you in word or picture such aids to joy 

 in gardens as we can find or plan. 



