Show gardens keeping pace with diets supply of celery lettuce spinach trebled in past decade the value of a garden used to be based largely on the saving it permitted in the budget for food and the variety it permitted in the diet that was perfectly in orar but aw now we have come to think of gardens more in terms of health and enjoyment vegetables have come to the front in the matter of diet because they supply roughage as well ns as a and id essential minerals in order to build up ill resistance to disease arid and provide iron calcium and phosphorus and vita vitamins mines for the body at least two vegetables other than potatoes or dried beans should be eaten every day broas trebled maybe gardens of yesteryear supplied all these things but did they nt not to the same extent as the gardens of today because we have learned so much in late years about food value dept and the importance of vegetables in the diet it Is significant eliat alint in the last decade the consumption of celery lettuce and spinach has trebled iron for red blood Is better supplied by garden greens than by patent medicines health and happiness it Is not every garden of course that supplies health and happiness in the fullest measure only the well balanced gardens such gardens produce the edible seed crops b bea beans peas aud and sweet corn the root crops such us its beets carrots parsnips par snips etc the green and salad saina crops sue such us as le lettuce celery cab cabbage linge chard etc the vegetable fruits such as tomatoes squashes quashes eggplants egg plants etc and in rid addition small fruits such as strawberries raspberries rasp berries curr currants ints rles ries etc varieties are influenced by locality Inc allty and condition of tho tha soll soil what Is best in one part of the country Is not always best in another it Is a good pi plan in to use ue forthe tor the most cart part varieties which have been wed tried and found satisfactory hut but dont close your mind on new varieties try a 11 now one of at least one crop every cery year the farm journal |