FOREWORD 



vegetables: but that twenty-five feet square 

 of ground enables him to get a good share of 

 the summer living of his family. 



xAjQother notion is, that in order to have a 

 good garden a large am^ount of time and labor 

 must be expended on it. Not so. A very 

 small amount of systematized labor will be 

 demanded by even a good-sized garden, if it 

 is plamied in such a manner that labor-sav- 

 ing tools can be used in its cultivation. If 

 we look back to the gardening days of fifty 

 or even twenty-five years ago, when every- 

 thing was done at the hardest and the hand 

 had to do a good share of the work that we 

 now do with helpful implements, it is not to be 

 wondered at that the old-time care of a garden 

 discourages many from undertaking to have 

 one. Happily those daj^s are over, and with 

 the gardening facilities of the present it is 

 an easy matter to accomplish more in an 

 hour than could be done then in a day. There 

 is really no drudgery in gardening as it is 

 done to-day. On the contrary, there is posi- 

 tive pleasure in the operation of the ma- 

 chinery which inventive genius has furnished 

 for the up-to-date gardener^s use. 



Those who have never had a garden of their 

 own, but have bought vegetables in the or- 

 dinary market, are not in a position to un- 



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