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PRIZE GARDENING 



rise before him, and straightway he makes a pilgrimage 

 to its cool shade and its sunny avenues, and forgets the 

 law in eager comparison of varieties of lettuce, or in 

 noting the swelling of incipient melons. The children 

 love it from the burying of seed in the warm earth to 

 the gathering of the harvest. Their eager feet are ever 

 treading its pathways and their eager hands are ever 

 ready to assist in its care. There are other partners. 

 The birds and the bees are there, bless them. Even 

 the chickens feel they are entitled to help. 



Garden work was recreating and was performed 

 at odd moments, when resting from the regular routine 

 of farm. work. Who can have the sordidness to claim 

 that the crisp, tender, toothsome dainties furnished for 

 the home table, or sent as a present to a friend, can be 

 adequately represented by a few pence set down in a 

 dailv account? 



FINIS 



