XVI 



THE VEGETABLE GAEDEN 



ONE of the chief advantages of sub- 

 urban life is the possibility it offers 

 to the gardening enthusiast of a home; 

 vegetable garden wherein may be grown those 

 table products of the plant world most to his 

 liking. Few luxuries there are in this day of 

 so much "artificial" living greater than that of 

 being able to have for one's home table freshly 

 gathered vegetables in season. What person 

 is there who does not take an understandable 

 pride in early grown corn, fresh green peas 

 and crisp tender salads grown in his own gar- 

 den! To many a one a vegetable plot is 

 merely a prosaic institution of the most prosaic 

 sort, a corner of the home premises to be tol- 

 erated and tended. Such a viewpoint is, at 

 best, quite as prosaic as the quality with which 

 such indifference invests the pleasant art of 

 vegetable gardening. 



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