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to an hour occasionally, spent in giving attention to the 

 growing of the best vegetables and luscious fruits, would be 

 a far nobler and more beneficial use of time than devoting 

 it to the ruffing and tucking of sewing-machine work, or 

 the baking and frying of so many "sorts " for the table, 

 or the idle gossip about such a one's new dress, or the 

 last installment of the weak serial story. The majority 

 of farmers' wives and daughters are not given to this waste- 

 fulness of time, but many are, and still think they have 

 "no opportunity for putting their noses out of doors ! " 



Come into the garden, Maude ; and bring your mothers 

 and sisters with you, and see what revolution you can 

 create ! The young brothers, too, in spite of their pro- 

 verbial hatred of weeding and hoeing, can have garden- 

 ing made interesting to them, if they only have a share 

 in the profits, as well as the work which is simply 

 fair. Let them have a piece of ground, and make their 

 own selection of seeds. Let mothers study up with them 

 on gardening, and let them assist in making labels, saving 

 seeds, starting the early vegetables in boxes, and prun- 

 ing and grafting, etc. It will be a wonder if their young 

 eyes do not brighten, and their young muscles lend them- 

 selvas with a will to making "our garden" a success. 



The following is a short list of some of the best kinds 

 of Vegetables a few of which, I am certain, are often 

 lacking in farm-gardens, but which no family will want 

 to miss from their table, after having enjoyed them for 



one season : 



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ASPARAGUS. 



This delicious esculent, like all other good things, has 

 to be earned, for it requires some care and painstaking 

 to found an asparagus bed. Once made, it will hold its 

 own for ten years or more, sending up its tender shoots 

 close upon the very heels of winter, and ailording "a 



