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comes because of the abundance of nature and 

 never through the intelHgence of the gardener. 

 And this is not the kind of gardening that we 

 of to-day can be satisfied with. The kitchen 

 garden deserves as much care to make it beau- 

 tiful through perfect order, and through exact 

 lines which express such order, as any other 

 kind of garden or section of the garden. Dis- 

 regard of these features is largely responsible 

 for its disrepute, as well as for the slovenly care 

 that it so often receives. Wherefore, observa- 

 tion of them will scatter both the indifference 

 that results in neglect, and the disdain that 

 scorns the finer attributes of appearance; and 

 thus we shall not only bring the vegetable gar- 

 den into its proper place of honor, but we shall 

 add to all the rest that a garden means a happy 

 consciousness of obligations discharged even as 

 they are continually reincurred. 



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