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GETTING THE GARDEN READY 

 HE amateur gardener will almost in- 



A variably be in too great a hurry to begin 

 gardening operations in the spring. But a 

 few warm days are not sufficient to put the 

 ground in proper condition for seeding, or 

 even for plowing and spading. The frost 

 must be allowed to get out of it, and after 

 that an opportunity must be given for sur- 

 plus water from melting snows and spring 

 rains to drain away before work can be done 

 to any advantage. As a general thing not 

 much can be done in gardening at the North 

 before the first of May. It is an old saying 

 that haste makes waste/' and the gardener 

 who is in too great a hurry often learns the 

 truth which underlies the saying by the 

 failure to germinate of the seed he puts into 

 the ground very early in the season. 



Another old saying that should be kept in 

 mind is that '^one swallow does not make a 



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