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And one must not forget the vegetables! 

 The delight to be derived from a well-planted 

 vegetable garden that has thriven and has be- 

 come luxuriantly productive is not alone a 

 mundane one. It is not because this is a tur- 

 nip or that is a beet that one's heart gives a lit- 

 tle bound on beholding these things growing 

 in his garden; it is because they remind him 

 that vegetable-growing depends upon more 

 than dropping a chance seed in a hole in the 

 ground, that the successful vegetable garden 

 is only possible through the careful attention 

 one gives to it and his interest in it. 



SEPTEMBER 



To the average person there is scarcely a 

 more interesting month in the season than that 

 of September in the garden. It is a month 

 which finds us forgiving to July's torrid heart- 

 lessness, August's uncertain temperament, and 

 although it may bring the blazing sun forth 

 to our temporary discomfiture, the nights in 

 the countryside will usually be delightful and 

 the daytime hours in contemplating the glo- 

 ries of our gardens will atone for all the rest. 

 Our summer lassitude will give way to more 



