Excerpt from Garden Guide: The Amateur Gardeners Handbook<br><br>The country (and In this term may be included practically all our suburban towns, boroughs and villages) is the children's paradise, with all Nature s world as their playground.<br><br>The hygienic value of fresh vegetables and fruits is beyond ques tion; their value to the family cannot be estimated in terms of money. The writer knows this and thousands of fortunate suburbanites will testify to its truth. A good garden is Nature's antidote for all ills flesh is heir to; it certainly does not make for a source of revenue to the physician. Fresh fruits and vegetables, each in their season, taken from your garden, are something quite different from the much handled and frequently stale products we buy in the city. Nearly every vegetable 18 an annual and can be grown with the first year S occupancy, and the second Summer the taste for all the small fruits can be indulged In to the full.<br><br>The Cliff Apartment dweller, whose vision is bounded on all sides by straight lines of brick and mortar, cement and stone, whose life is harried by the janitor, whose quietude is disturbed by the noises overhead and below, who cannot enjoy anight s sleep in the open without fear of arrest, whose movements to and from business are made miserable In trolley, subway or L, must surely envy the commuter, even though the latter be still made the butt of the me pressible joker, whom we pardon because, poor man, he knows no better.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.