240 GARDENING OVER A WINTER FIRE. 



claims, that it is well to have something settled 

 beforehand. Having resolved on some good 

 methods, on selections that seem the best, push 

 these right through, and if you have made 

 mistakes and can see room for improvements, 

 mark well just where, and make the changes for 

 the better the following season. The man who 

 in April or May is following the impulses of his 

 own mind, bewildered by the variety of things 

 that all need to be done at once seemingly, or 

 who listens to a neighbor who leans over the 

 fence and suggests, will probably have a strange 

 jumble of a garden. 



Then, in addition to the saving of time by 

 having a plan, is the still greater saving of 

 worry. A man who has a definite course 

 marked out works with almost twice the ease 

 and rapidity of one who does not know exactly 

 what to do next. Worry wear? much faster 

 than work. It is like a shutter slamming back 



