4 INTRODUCTION 
dislikes as to food and care; still another is the quick- 
ening of your powers of observation. These are the 
gains from garden work that will remain to enrich 
your lives long after the vegetables are eaten, or sold, 
and the money is spent which you made by marketing 
your crops. 
In club gardening still other advantages are gained, 
the most important of which is undoubtedly the ability 
to do team work. Some of us who can do very good 
work alone, have never learned to pull together. The 
garden club cannot be a complete success unless its 
members are willing to join hands in an effort to make 
theirs the best gardens in the country. If this spirit 
prevails throughout all the garden ventures, then there 
will be a great number of successful gardens. But if by 
some strange mischance no crop at all should result, the 
fact that you had learned to work together would be a 
fine reward to you. What I mean is this: aside from the 
great value of the crop which your gardens will produce, 
is that equally ereat moral value, which some of us do 
not yet realize, of having learned to pull together. 
With all these advantages in prospect, you must not 
forget this certain principle that here as elsewhere one 
does not ‘‘get something for nothing.’? Whether it is 
the crop of vegetables, the bank account, or the moral 
and physical training (or all combined), which you are 
after, there must be work and plenty of it to insure 
worth-while returns. But it must be intelligent effort, 
not haphazard manual labor, for physical labor that 
is not directed by mental effort will be disappointing 
to all concerned. One can work, and work hard, and 
yet deserve no particular eredit and win no worthy 
reward, if he has worked blindly and without fixing 
upon his goal before he started for it. 
