A-B-C OF VEGETABLE GARDENING 



derstand the wide difference between the 

 article we buy and the one which is taken 

 directly from the ground and eaten at once. 

 \\niile it is possible to keep most vegetables 

 looking fresh for a considerable time by the 

 use of water and ice, it is not possible to 

 make them retain that dehcacy of flavor 

 known only to those whose vegetables go 

 straight from the garden to the kitchen. If 

 you want any vegetable at its best you must 

 grovv^ it in your own garden. 



The general impression seems to be that 

 gardening is essentially man's work, and that 

 women and children are not equal to it. This 

 is another mistake that will rapidly be done 

 away with, for the woman of to-day is no 

 longer a housed-up woman. She is rapidly 

 learning the value of fresh air, and the tonic 

 of outdoor life is fast taking the place of the 

 doctor's prescriptions. The writer knov\'s of 

 many women who have found work in the 

 garden not only a healthful occupation, but 

 one so delightful that they look forward to 

 spring with most pleasurable anticipations, 

 and long for the time to come vvhen they can 

 get to work out of doors. ^\Tien we have 

 tried both we learn that work in the vege- 

 table-garden is no harder than that in the 



flower-garden, and that neither demands 



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