GAKDE^IXG. 



Gardening is the most productive and advantageous 

 mode of occupying the surface of the soil. It also pro- 

 duces the most refined and luxurious articles of human 

 food, and in some respects the most wholesome. 



It is truly astonishing in this enlightened age, an age 

 characterized by so many useful establishments, that 

 Horticulture should have been so remarkably neglected, 

 and by that class of citizens too who are most interested 

 in its advancement, we mean the agriculturalists ; while 

 so productive a source of comfort, profit, and economy 

 lies so completely within the compass of their operations. 

 The garden has, or ought to have, many attractions. — 

 It is the household farm. It is always under the eye — 

 it may be made the companion and the friend of many 

 a leisure hour, it furnishes a spot, where, at chance in- 

 tervals of severer labour, every man, even the humblest 

 in the community, who has a garden patch, may benefit 

 himself, and take a pleasure in his labour. The cultiva- 

 tion of a garden furnishes a pleasant and rational amuse- 

 ment. At a small expense, and a little labour, it pre- 

 sents to you a great variety of the beauties of nature, 

 and it may be made to supply most families with a moie- 

 ty of their sustenance. To be sure there is no great 

 profit in cash arising to the farmer from gardening be- 

 yond the limits of 20 miles from a great town^ — but 

 when men have arrived to the degree of comfort which 

 our farmers generally enjoy, they ought to seek innocent 

 luxuries. 



A kitchen-garden, well stored with vegetables, is high- 

 ly important to the Farmer, as the us*i of these super- 

 cede the necessity of consuming much meat ; a practice 

 equally inconsistant with economy and with good health. 

 But the great mass of citizens do certainly deprive 

 themselves of much convenience, saving, and perhaps 



