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THE FUN OF MAKING GARDEN 
err, not knowing the truth. Itisfun. A 
little sweat is becomingly mingled with the 
function, but is not so much the sweat of toil 
as it is the sweat of spring fever, the beginnings 
of the session of the sun. And sweat is very 
healthy and very much needed. To take the 
collar off and tie a handkerchief about the neck 
and seize with becoming violence the south end 
of a hoe gives such an impression of importance 
that it is worth all it costs in perspiration to give 
yourself such a wholesome exhibit of yourself 
as a man of real worth and affairs. 
Beside, gardening is an antique occupation. 
More ,antique than any furniture on display at 
any antique store. This should ingratiate gar- 
dening with those artistic souls who dote on the 
antique and remote. Adam was a gardener, 
we read, and the rendering of the text is doubt- 
less accurate. While Adam hoed, Eve stood by 
and bossed. And if authority be demanded for 
such an assertion, seeing nothing of the sort is 
named in the text, the easy and accurate reply 
is that to have said such a thing would have 
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