CHAPTER X 
Vegetable Growiné¢ for the 
Home Table 
The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the 
bounty of earth, and sweetened by the airs of 
heaven. 
—Jerrold. 
Ir is predicted that this year,—1917,— will be 
the greatest year for gardening that the country 
ever has known! 
The high cost of living first stimulated interest. 
Then after war was declared, the slogan, ‘‘ Food as 
important as men or munitions,’’ stirred young and 
old. Garden clubs sprang up everywhere, and in 
free lectures people were instructed how to pre- 
pare, plant and cultivate whatever ground they 
could get, from small backyards to vacant lots. 
In our neighborhood last year a man with a plot 
of ground less than half the size of a tennis court, 
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