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get in most restaurants — I — ^well, some feelings 

 are too deep and complex for expression in 

 words. 



A SPORTING PROPOSITION 



Let me say right here that if the retiring rich 

 man, for whose special benefit I am writing 

 this chapter, is interested in sports, he need not 

 swear off when he becomes an amateur gar- 

 dener. His professional assistant will tell him 

 how he can raise mammoth pumpkins weighing 

 up to a hundred and even two hundred pounds. 

 He can try to make a new record in size and 

 weight, beating all his neighbors and predeces- 

 sors. Why isn't that just as satisfying as a new 

 record in boat or horse racing? 



The spirit of racing or emulation can be 

 applied in a hundred ways in the garden, as I 

 hinted and briefly illustrated in the chapter "A 

 New Time-table for Vegetables." If you will 

 read the books of Luther Burbank the gardening 

 of the future will seem a wild dream of impos- 

 sible possibilities. 



You, the retiring rich man, are in a position 

 also to contribute to the satisfaction of living 

 things that are beyond all price. You can have 

 a use for your wealth which will make your name 

 memorable in the gardens and the parlors and 

 dining rooms of the world. There is usually no 

 money in this sort of thing. Speaking of Calvin 

 N. Keeney, who originated the stringless beans, 

 Professor Bailey says, "The making of new 



