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Show B; V INTEREST IN GARDEN WORK. B I The garden movement has necessarily become mostly m I an appeal to the people to raise food for patriotic reasons. H But many persons who aro taking hold with this feeling 't of obligation, aro going to find pleasure in it and will discover that they have found a new diversion. After the B! aches and soreness incidept to using new muscles have BHB USMSSMSSSSSSSSSU gjgfjsMBSSJBMMMMj passed off, they will find that it is not all drudgery as i they anticipated. ,. I A great many people have always known this, and have kept up garden work notmerely for reasons .of family economy, but because they found it agreeable and interesting. in-teresting. ," , '.... fp. I It is like any other form of conscious skill,. The mo-! mo-! ment that by reason of intelligent knowledge you are able to produce a valuable result in spite of difficulties, it is a pleasure to put forth the necessary effort. . Garden work introduces you to the personality of the different food plants, and the true enthusiast feels a keen 'interest in all their ways. He learns that this one needs a greatdeal of sunshine and that one a special amount of moisture. Soma are sensitive.to cold and must be plantediate. Others are bold and hardy and can go in j early. Some are tough creatures of poor'soils, and .will hold up their independent heads on almost any kind of (land. Others are more creatures of luxury, requiring much coddling with fertilizers and water before they produce pro-duce their luscious fruit. The gardener who watchesall these different habits comes to look on his plants as a kind i of family which all must be nursed and trained according to their individual temperaments. When any one acquires this knowledge, it is with a sense of triumph that he produces handsome potatoes and beans and peas after a struggle with the adverse forces of nature, and no vegetable bought at a grocery store ever begins to taste so well. n |