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Don’t forget that women are apt to make 
good gardeners, because they are willing to 
“fuss over’? necessary small matters. If you 
do not like toattend constantly to “ little things,” 
if you “hate details,” you will be unlikely to 
make a big success of intensive culture. The 
man who does best is the one who loves to 
compare soils and fertilizers and seeds, and to 
try how many seeds sprout and how long they 
take; who is interested in the temperature of 
every hot-bed; who watches for just the day to 
use the wheel-hoe on this row and the hand-plow 
on that; who finds the time only too short while 
he sets out onion seedlings; who enjoys putting 
up nice bunches of vegetables or packages of 
fruit. In short, the man or woman whose 
interest is in watching the crops instead of 
the clock, is the one who succeeds in garden 
work. 
Don’t delude yourself into thinking that you 
must have a fine house before you can take up 
gardening. A shack is as good as a palace, and 
better, if you can afford the one and not the 
other. Anything that can be ventilated and 
made weather-proof will be enough. After 
you have made your fortune, if you have not 
in the meantime learned the value of simple 
living, build your fine house, and be as splen- 
