Foreword 



ity of another sort. It is not idleness that is 

 needed, for idleness has no tonic in it. What 

 is necessary is change, change of work, change 

 of conditions, change of thought. Therefore 

 to the overworked housewife I would prescribe 

 a season of gardening as better than all the 

 doctors' drugs. " Throw physic to the dogs," 

 and arm yourself with a hoe and rake, and dig 

 for health among the garden beds. Nine times 

 out of ten those who seek for it there will find 

 it, I feel very sure. 



