Show A FEBRUARY GARDEN february Is an especially satisfying period for or the amateur gardener it Is the season when he begins to plan tor for the next summers sum mera plot in the back yard A halt dozen catalogs a comfortable chair a warm room and a credulous imagination constitute the equipment 1100 needed ded tor for growing a splendid garden tri in winter the results of ones efforts are much more pearly nearly perfect now than will possible bo next summer one needs merely to look at the vegetables fruits and flowers por brayed in the catalogs and let fancy have tree free play the advantages now over endeavors later lies in that one does not have to spade refractory soil does not have to contend with frosts effect affect on tender plants there aro are no blights baights on gardens in imagination floods do not drown or dry weather wither bugs do not consume nor do lie he forays of neighbors chickens exasperate it Is the only perfect season for a garden only at this season can one hope to reach the perfection in products which the catalogs portray ones hopes steadily vanish as one progresses from the anticipation to the realization therefore let anticipation have tree free play now realization will be enough of a disappointment at best alm aim high la Is hu en old maxim surely the seed catalog designers do not offend in not placing the goal high enough their standard often out lofts the lofty As spring cornea comes ana one takes up the practical phases of the problem of a garden the prospect will appear less promising it Is easier to plan hard labor than to perform it there Is no excellence without great labor the old time copybooks told us and that hat t Is the tha reason february or thereabout there about la is the best time tor for growing a garden it require much labor next summer it will be different |