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planted sentiment of our nature by making no place so homely 

 jEis home. Eather will the wise father seek to foster this love of 

 home, by gathering about the farm-stead that which shall make 

 it pleasant to the eye and dear to the heart, that shall minister 

 enjojonent to mind and body, and link the thought of it in the 

 memories of his children with every comfort and every joy. 

 Who can wonder that the children of some of our cheerless farm 

 houses have no pleasant thoughts of home, and leave it as soon 

 as they are fledged? Ifo wonder they seek their enjo3rments 

 elsewhere, perhaps in places where they learn the ways of vice, 

 No wonder that so many sons of farmers leave the farm, so bleak 

 and cheerless, and un-home-like, disgusted with its labors and all 

 they have known of the farmer's life. There is no reason why 

 the farmers of Canada should not enjoy every real comfort, dwell 

 in the most pleasant of homes, beautiful in all their surround- 

 ings, have their tables supplied with all the most delicious fruits 

 and vegetables of our climate, and their door-yards an Eden of 

 delightful bowers, bright with blossoms laden with sweet per- 

 fume. 



Eut there is another view to be taken of this subject by those 

 farmers residing upon the suburbs of our thriving towns and 

 villages. A well-conducted garden is a paying thing. The time 

 and labor bestowed on the garden may be made to yield a hand- 

 some revenue. Vegetables and small fruits may be grown in 

 excess of the wants of the farm house, and the surplus will 

 always find a sale in the town market, if of good quality, and 

 usually at decidedly lemimerative rates. In this, as in all de- 

 partments of industry, skill in producing fine products will have 

 its sure reward. The careless and unthinking cultivator will, in 

 the end, be driven from the field by the man who uses his brains 

 and makes himself informed upon the best modes of culture, and 

 studies the requirements of his soil and of the plants he culti- 

 vates. In these pages wiU be foimd some hints that will help 

 the Canadian farmer to an acquaintance with the requisites essen- 

 tial to success in the cultivation of the garden, and such descrip- 



