The Home Garden 



Of course the reader understands that it is 

 not absolutely necessary to employ all these 

 implements in order to have a good garden. 

 In times when a spade and hoe constituted the 

 entire garden outfit, just as good vegetables 

 were grown as can be grown today, but it 

 required a good deal more labor to bring about 

 the desired result. The fact that the use of 

 labor-saving implements enables one to accom- 

 plish so much more in a short time, do it with 

 greater ease, and do it just as well if not better, 

 is the strong argument in their favor. And, 

 too, most men, and especially boys, like to use 

 machinery. Nine boys, I venture to say, can 

 be made to take an interest in the garden 

 where the implements I have mentioned are 

 used, where one could be induced to work in 

 it with simply a hoe and spade. Boys, like 

 men, have a horror of pulling weeds, and the 

 writer of this cannot say that he blames them 

 for it, for he can easily remember the time 

 when he would rather take a whipping than 

 weed the garden for an hour. He very much 

 doubts if he would have a garden now if ail 

 the work in it had to be done in the slow, hard, 

 old-fashioned way. But since he has found 



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