8 Home Vegetable Gardening 



the most important reason why you should garden. 

 It is the cheapest, healthiest, keenest pleasure there 

 is. Give me a sunny garden patch in the golden 

 springtime, when the trees are picking out their new 

 gowns, in all the various self-colored delicate grays 

 and greens — strange how beautiful they are, in the 

 same old unchanging styles, isn't it ? — give me seeds 

 to watch as they find the light, plants to tend as they 

 take hold in the fine, loose, rich soil, and you may 

 have the other sports. And when you have grown 

 tired of their monotony, come back in summer to 

 even the smallest garden, and you will find in it, 

 every day, a new problem to be solved, a new cam- 

 paign to be carried out, a new victory to w^in. 



Better food, better health, better living — all these 

 the home garden ofifers you in abundance. And the 

 price is only the price of every worth-while thing — 

 honest, cheerful patient work. 



But enough for now of the dream garden. Put 

 down your book. Put on your old togs, light your 

 pipe — some kind-hearted humanitarian should de- 

 vise for women such a kindly and comforting vice 

 as smoking — and let's go outdoors and look the 

 place over, and pick out the best spot for that gar- 

 den-patch of yours. 



