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ing of things — and that has now become my busi- 

 ness as well as my pleasure — the more absorbingly 

 interesting I find it. Each season, each crop, offers 

 its own problems and a reward for the correct solu- 

 tion of them. It is a work which, even to the begin- 

 ner, presents the opportunity of deducting new 

 conclusions, trying new experiments, making new 

 discoveries. It is a work which offers pleasant and 

 healthy recreation to the many whose days must be, 

 for the most part, spent in office or shop; and it 

 gives very substantial help in the world-old problem 

 of making both ends meet. 



Let the garden beginner be not disappointed if 

 he does not succeed, for the first season or two, or 

 possibly three, with everything he plants. There is 

 usually a preventable reason for the failure, and 

 studious observation will reveal it. With the mod- 

 ern success in the application of insecticides and 

 fungicides, and the extension of the practice of irri- 

 gation, the subject of gardening begins to be re- 

 duced to a scientific and (what is mxore to the point) 

 a sure basis. We are getting control of the uncer- 

 tain factors. All this affects first, perhaps, the 

 person who grows for profit, but with our present 

 wide circulation of every new idea and discovery in 

 such matters, it must reach soon to every remote 

 home garden patch which is cared for by a wide- 

 awake gardener. 



