A-B-C OF VEGETABLE GARDENING 



cause one has to. dig for it some persons prefer 

 to keep on enjoying their old miserableness 

 day after day and year after year. These 

 are the incurables — the chronic'^ cases 

 that one cannot expect to do much with or 

 for. But those who are willing to exert 

 themselves in an effort to get back the 

 tone that life has lost to a considerable 

 extent will find that work in the garden is 

 a better tonic than our doctors have a 

 record of in their pharmacopoeia. 



The earth fairly tingles with life in spring, 

 and by putting ourselves in contact with it 

 we absorb some of this vitality. We breathe 

 in the wine of a new life, and we thrill with a 

 thousand sensations that can come only from 

 putting ourselves in close touch with Nature. 

 You can tell a woman who needs a change 

 from indoors to outdoors that she ought to 

 take more exercise, but if you advise walking 

 the chances are that she won't walk much. 

 That kind of exercise doesn't appeal to her, 

 and to make whatever kind of exercise she 

 takes effective it must be something that 

 affords her pleasure — something that she en- 

 joys more than she does doing things from 

 a ''sense of duty,^^ or simply because she has 

 been told to do it. What is needed is some 

 form of exercise that has an object in it — a 



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