What Science Has Done for Gardening. 



No one profession can stand alone without the support 

 and help of other allied callings. The man who says 

 that he can successfully conduct a market garden, or a 

 farm, without the assistance of scientific thought and 

 investigation is not well informed as to how much he is 

 really dependent on what science has done, and is doing, 

 for his profession. If he says that he has no patience 

 with " book farming," aud attempts to conduct his busi- 

 ness with methods and implements in use fifty years 

 ago, and declines to read and keep up with the progress 

 of the times, he will soon find to his sorrow that his 

 neighbors who do read and profit by what intelligent 

 investigation is bringing to light, are far outstripping 

 him in the improvement of their gardens and in the 

 profits they are reaping by placing on the markets early 

 vegetables and fruits. 



This is the age of the printing press and thousands of 

 thoughtful, earnest investigators are sending out by its 

 means vast stores of valuable, practical information to 

 him who will read and profit thereby. Practical men 

 and women must read and learn what the rest of the 

 world is doing if they expect to keep up with the pro- 

 gress of events. The competition in all departments of 

 tilling the soil is now so great, that the most successful 

 gardener or farmer is that man who not only accumu- 

 lates books, but also is a diligent reader and a student 

 in his profession, always looking out for new and 

 improved ideas to enable him to produce the best and 

 largest crop possible on his land with the least amount 



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