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Those same tomatoes, and some of the Cos 

 lettuce, come in comfortably for luncheon; while 

 at breakfast one may always have radishes of some 

 sort. There are growing this year big plants of 

 the Japanese Sakurajima radish, with tremendous 

 roots that slice into a most inoffensive table result, 

 the pungency being wholly out of relation to the 

 size. 



Our family has never connected very satis- 

 factorily with Swiss chard, of which I usually grow 

 some plants. If we had not such excellent beets 

 and such delightful spinach, we might become 

 enthusiastic about this vegetable which is a sort 

 of combination of both. 



I find the garden well tilled, and thus with- 

 standing the better the absence of rain, which 

 showed in browned fields on my way home. Later, 

 we shall have to water, unless nature takes that 

 essential work off our hands. The result of several 

 years of war on weeds is now seen in some relaxa- 

 tion of their abundant germination. My effort 

 has been to kill the weed before it has grown its 

 second pair of leaves, not only in the interest of a 

 clean place, but because I have seen what constant 

 and persistent stirring of the ground does. I sus- 

 pect that the necessity for weeding, in order that 

 the first gardeners might restrict the use of the 

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