The Gardener's Calendar 



SEPTEMBER 



This is the month in which the amateur 

 gardener will be most likely to get the 

 greatest amount of pleasure from his garden. 

 This because there are so many substantial 

 results in the way of vegetables and fruit, 

 showing what can be accomplished with but 

 little trouble if one goes to work in the 

 right way. 



In this connection I want to quote a para- 

 graph from the ''National Fruit-Grower : " 

 "What a pitiful sight it is to see a woman so 

 hungry for a little fruit that she will drag 

 herself through briars and bushes all day to 

 gather a few quarts of blackberries, or wild 

 gooseberries, when, for a few cents and a little 

 use of spare time, her husband could have 

 provided plenty of both at home, of a quality 

 so much superior to the small flavorless fruit 

 she tires herself out looking for that she would 

 hardly recognize the two specimens as belong- 

 ing to the same family. Frankly, we haven't 

 much of an opinion of a man who is too blind 

 to his own interests, and the interests of his 

 family, to not have a garden and all the small 

 fruits his family can make use of." 



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