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YOUR OWN GARDEN 



BY DR. FRANK CRANE 



The following was written specially as an introduction to this catalogue by Dr. Frank Crane, the famous writer. 



We all love to own things, and many of us make ourselves miserable by our passion for ownership. Some 

 own diamonds and are worried to death for fear they will be stolen. Some own so much land they are land- 

 poor. Some own houses that are white elephants. And some even make collections of canes, snuff boxes, 

 postage stamps and book plates. It is often a question as to whether ownership does not bring more trouble 

 than pleasure. 



But the one thing which it is a pure joy to own is a garden. Your own garden, where you have prepared 

 the soil yourself, and dug it yourself, and planted yourself, and watched the green things grow with your own 

 eyes, and fought off the insects pests, and hoed, and raked, and weeded, and watered and tended all the plants 

 till you love them as if they were your own babies. 



All those blessed radishes, and peas and beets came out of nothing, out of the nowhere into the here, and 

 stand in their green rows like vigorous little soldiers of life. 



They are yours. You created them, at least you are a partner with God in creating them. And there is 

 a pleasure which the gardener takes in growing something which is even keener than the pleasure of the crafts- 

 man in making something. 



A garden of vegetables is the ideal combination of use and beauty. 



They are the best food in all the world. Doctors often warn you against eating too much meat, or too 

 much candy, or too much of this or that, but rarely warn you against eating too many vegetables. 



The garden is the poor man's friend. With it he can bid defiance to the high cost of living. 



Gardening is the oldest and most human of joys, the least artificial of diversions, and of all occupations 

 the most profitable. It is the one business where you can make a thousand percent on your capital. 



When we think of the many back yards and vacant lots that are left waste, we are struck by the vast 

 resources of joy and profit that people leave unused. 



The great seed houses prepare for you the best of seeds for a trifling expenditure. Uncle Sam brings these 

 to you by parcel post, no matter in what part of the country you live. The rest is up to you. 



You may do some things you regret the coming year, but growing a garden and eating the fruits thereof 

 will not be among them. 



Copyright 1923 by Peter Henderson & Co., N. Y. 



HENDERSON'S TESTED SEEDS ARE SENT FROM COAST TO COAST BY PARCEL POST 



