"Prayer and praise in a country home. 

 Honey and fruit; a man might come, 

 Fed on such meats, to walk abroad. 

 And in his orchard talk with God." 



— Oj an Orchard — Katharine Tynan. 



CHAPTER XIX 



Garden Fruits of Tree and Bush 



THERE are many times good and sufficient 

 reasons why a garden shall not be planned 

 to produce vegetables, notwithstanding all there 

 is to be said of obligations and responsibilities 

 — and this I am perfectly willing to grant. But 

 there is never any reason why even the tiniest 

 garden shall be unproductive in the matter of 

 fruit — and nothing that can be planted yields 

 such generous returns on the money, time, and 

 space devoted to it. Furthermore, no fruit 

 that can be had from the markets ever equals 

 in quality the fruit that may be grown in the 

 private garden, for the simple reason that com- 

 mercial growers never raise the choicest vari- 

 eties. It is with fruits, when grown commer- 

 cially, as with vegetables; certain requirements 

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