Introduction 



dener has little need of them. Healthy, vigorous 

 plants are not especially susceptible to insect at- 

 tacks and with the exception of potato bugs, squash 

 bugs and cabbage worms the danger from them 

 is merely negligible, but the careless, slovenly 

 gardener is a real and pestilential danger. 



There is much in choosing the right time of 

 day for work in the garden; it is delightful to 

 wield the rake and hoe in the cool of the after- 

 noon, but where the object is the destruc- 

 tion of weeds the morning hours of a sunny 

 day will give permanent results as the weeds will 

 be killed by the hot sun, while those hoed up in 

 late afternoon will often be revived by the cool- 

 ness and dew of night and be ready to withstand 

 the morrow's sun, so take the morning hours for 

 destroying weeds, and the cooler hours for plant- 

 ing seeds, staking up plants, thinning out plants 

 and the Hke but always the bright, dry sunny hours 

 for tying up such vegetables as need blanching: 

 cauliflower, endive and the like. This will make 

 for success in the various operations and comfort 

 in working. 



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