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been included in his haste. He had always 

 thought gardeners very leisurely in their mode of 

 working; why didn't the fellows speed up? City 

 people would never get anywhere if they poked 

 along. It dawns on him after viewing the dam- 

 age wrought by his business methods that the 

 speed limit governs in gardens as well as else- 

 where. Seedlings are so easily upset. The 

 weeds, on the other hand, sit tight as if, indeed, 

 the devil was holding on to the roots. 



The battle with the insects must be waged at 

 the same time. In the vast movie of Nature 

 there is something doing every minute. The 

 Potatoes are standing in the morning green and 

 healthy. By eventide they are festooned with 

 reds silently marshalled out of the nowhere into 

 your field. Hardly have you sprinkled paris 

 green or some other poisonous compound as a 

 salad dressing for the ensuing young beetles, 

 when the Cauliflowers are attacked. While 

 you are preparing the special diet for the cabbage 

 worm, aphis settle noiselessly on your Sweet-peas 

 and Roses, causing a deathly anemia. 



Only the homeliest vegetables seem able to get 

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 nips, Beets and more or less coarse roots are fairly 

 able to fight for themselves — being, of course, 

 well hoed. It is this hoeing that the catalogues 

 never emphasize. It is this which the lucky 

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 The directions on the seed packages, always say, 

 to be sure: "Keep well cultivated," but in small 

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 front is depicted a toothsome onion or radish 

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 early spring when even a dandelion salad is wel- 

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By persistence and that kind of genius which 

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