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Show TIME TO PLAN ftomton has Mid thai oll. and toll will mate a jrarU ." Kattiinff farther, from th truth. With Ihat com-bi com-bi nation you Hava but thrta-fourths of the Ingredlenta nciarr to product gmt -den cropa when I hey ar wanted and In tha largetrt meaaura, You muat Include bralna In tha Hat of thin ncssarjr to garden making:. Tha differenca between a ttonA garden and a poor on naually la tha difference between a good garnener and one who Aoea no early planning, ttot late cultivation. culti-vation. Early planning, garden experts point out, has little In Common with early spring t it- iffsomat h injr Intimately een nected with winter, with tha evenings when the family congregates round trie dining room table and wonders when this cold weather will end. There Is, asaert these same garden teacher, no better gardening time than fight hew this very evening. For garden gar-den planning Is not a thing one gets away with try a moment's effort. One must go at the subject with plenty of time to do it Jiifftlca. There la need for an accumulation accu-mulation of peed catalogs and reference to garden books on may borrow at the library, and consultation with ;amily taatea. Alao there la necessary a survey sur-vey of ground, one's own backward, or- a nearby vacant lot. And. by the way. Just as the early br geta he worm. So deH the earhr garden planner get the nearest vacant lot. He fore going after the lot It may be Well to learn If the soil there is gardenable. JJ that lot was Idle taut summer there may have been a reason; poor soil, too much shade, too low and damp. (Mir friend, the artist, who doea Annual cartoons poking fun a( the seed catalog readers, might as well laugh at the law student beca'iae, he reads Blacks tone, or the Physician because he studies anat. omy of the human body. If one hops to produce a good garaen he must study seed a. He must show that grd seeds are the only sort to buy, and that good seeds are seeds from well bearing strong plants, ca pat lie of reproducing. He must know that eome, seeds produce early and late; that some must be grown In warmed sheltered scdhedn so they m:iy be transplanted to the garden after danger dan-ger of frost Is over, and that others tnav he sown very early outdoors even If there should be possibilities of other "cold spells." Tes. the seed catalog Is a fine text-hood text-hood for garden planners to stud v. It Is nicely liluntrated. The picture's are highly encoursginglf one could produce tomatoes like thme the artist pictures In the see-1 catalog, one would havt no other worlds to conquer! |