A B C OF 

 VEGETABLE GARDENING 



FOREWORD 



NOT everybody has a garden. Some deny 

 themselves the pleasure and the profit of 

 one because they have never had any ex- 

 perience in gardening, and have somehow 

 got the impression that special training is 

 necessary to make a success of the under- 

 taking. Here is where they make a mistake. 

 There is no special ^ ^ knack about it. Any 

 one who owns a bit of land, and has some time 

 that can be given to garden-work, and an in- 

 clination to do so, can make a gardener of 

 himself in a season — and a successful one, 

 too — if he allows himself to be governed by 

 the advice of some one who has had some ex- 

 perience along this line. After the first sea- 



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