Excerpt from The Vegetable Garden, Vol. 32

In recent years, gardening among the labor ing classes of the large towns and cities has been recommended as a means not only of reducing the cost of living but of providing pleasant and profitable employment for the wage-earner and his family, when other duties do not demand their attention. These ideas are excellent and worthy of consideration wherever conditions are favorable for successful gardening. Mil lions of families in towns, where there are min ing and manufacturing industries, might well devote a part of their yards to the growing of vegetables.

By following the most intensive plans, such as are explained in the various chapters of this little book, a surprisingly large quantity of vege tables may be grown on a plot of ground of. A few hundred square feet. The results of a well-managed laboring man's garden will show in smaller monthly grocery bills.

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