120 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



will be. Who has not seen a beginner's gar- 

 den wherein row after row of lettuce has grown 

 to seed and an abundance of radish plants has 

 grown almost to the size of turnips, while the 

 few tomato plants were early and eagerly 

 stripped of their limited supply of fruit! AU 

 this naturally suggests the disproportionate 

 planting that prevents a vegetable garden from 

 becoming fully useful or a thing in which to 

 take particular pride. Pride in one's garden 

 always bespeaks pleasure in it, whether it 

 be given to the planting of flowers or to the 

 production of vegetables, whereas an ill-ar- 

 ranged and faultily planned garden seems only 

 to emphasize drudgery in the working of it. 



Finally a word should be said in connection 

 with the fact that with almost every vegetable 

 there is some especial cultural requirement that 

 the garden-maker should study, understand 

 and attend to, which naturally suggests that 

 the garden-beginner will do well to add reUable 

 reference works on the subject to the home li- 

 brary. 



