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all through; that the cook can peel in a jiffy; that 

 buttered and salted are so almighty good that you 

 refuse to remember what some one told you about 

 "potatoes being so fattening." That kind repro- 

 duces itself just as well, and just as easily as the 

 inferior ones and if you don't prefer it, well you 

 haven't got the stuff in you to make a gardener 

 or anything else. 



IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO GARDEN 



One more example of the late season gardening 

 occurs to me. Most people would give up all hopes 

 of fresh vegetables, if the ground hadn't been broken 

 by July. But the people I have in mind didn't 

 look at it that way, and the following is the tale of 

 what they did. Keep this case in mind if you ever 

 have to move in the springtime. A little gardening 

 when you are located in your new home, will prove 

 a change from "getting settled" indoors, anyway; 

 also from paying grocer's bills. 



A GARDEN PLANTED AFTER THE FOURTH OF JULY 



"I have had great success in the vegetable patch 

 when not a thing was planted before the Fourth of 

 July. These kinds of vegetables have more than 

 paid for the risk of late planting: cucumbers, squash, 

 carrots, corn, lettuce, bush Limas, pole string beans, 

 parsley, radishes and wax beans. Others that 

 give fairly good results are, pole Limas, tomatoes, 

 potatoes, beets and kohlrabi. 



