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fji ins anything of use to you for the purposes of 

 your manual, you are at liberty to do what you please 

 with it. 



Sincerely yours, PETER B. MEAD. 



APPENDIX F. ' 

 THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



BY AN AMATEUR. 



THERE are a few accessories of the homestead more 

 important than a good fruit and vegetable garden ; no 

 borne is perfect without them. If there is one thing 

 more than another which adds to the comforts of a poor 

 man's cottage, it is a well-kept garden, in its largest 

 sonse ; nay, it is a luxury, even to the millionaire. A 

 well-regulated house within, and a well-kept garden 

 without,. make up much of the sum of human happi- 

 ness. How few such there are ! The garden is too 

 generally looked upon as something to minister to the 

 mere appetite ; but, when rightly regarded, it exercises 

 a moral and intellectual influence, which gives it a 

 strong claim to the serious consideration of all who feel 

 any concern in the ultimate destiny of the human race. 

 Horticultural pursuits, above all others, bring into 

 healthy play those powers of body and mind, the 

 mutual exercise of which alone can keep up that just 



