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Illustrated Lecture on the City and Suburban Vegetable Garden
Title
Illustrated Lecture on the City and Suburban Vegetable Garden
Subject
urban gardens
Excerpt
A well-planned and carefully tended garden is one of the 1 most pleasant and satisfying pieces of work in which the city or suburban family can utilize its spare time. If the garden soil 2 is properly prepared and a little attention is given the garden as required the work need not become a burden on the members of the household.
Gardening the backyard and vacant lots of the city and sub- urban sections of our country is a patriotic endeavor. Patriotic because the production of any kind or quantity of food adds to the cities' food supply. The production of large quantities of food in the city and suburban sections is very advantageous because it utilizes the spare time labor of persons employed at other work, mid it brings food to the family table with rib drain on transportation lines, terminal and market facilities, or on store delivery service. The production of vegetables also enables the conservation of wheat, meat, etc.
Gardening gives pleasure and profit besides being patriotic, it gives pleasure not only in the work with growing plants, but in the producing of high-quality, crisp, fresh vegetables for 4 the family table. It gives profit both in producing vegetables cheaper than they can be purchased and in lessening the use of more expensive foods, like meats, etc. Gardening is no doubt profitable because of better health secured by the exercise in the open air and the use of more vegetables in the diet.
Gardening should be an important part of the city and sub- urban life because of the interest it adds to the lives of people little used to country surroundings. It is interesting to the young and old, and to women and girls as well as men and boys. There is no better way of keeping the boys off the street and out of mischief than giving them a plot of ground in which they can make a garden, the result to be their very own.
Gardening the backyard and vacant lots of the city and sub- urban sections of our country is a patriotic endeavor. Patriotic because the production of any kind or quantity of food adds to the cities' food supply. The production of large quantities of food in the city and suburban sections is very advantageous because it utilizes the spare time labor of persons employed at other work, mid it brings food to the family table with rib drain on transportation lines, terminal and market facilities, or on store delivery service. The production of vegetables also enables the conservation of wheat, meat, etc.
Gardening gives pleasure and profit besides being patriotic, it gives pleasure not only in the work with growing plants, but in the producing of high-quality, crisp, fresh vegetables for 4 the family table. It gives profit both in producing vegetables cheaper than they can be purchased and in lessening the use of more expensive foods, like meats, etc. Gardening is no doubt profitable because of better health secured by the exercise in the open air and the use of more vegetables in the diet.
Gardening should be an important part of the city and sub- urban life because of the interest it adds to the lives of people little used to country surroundings. It is interesting to the young and old, and to women and girls as well as men and boys. There is no better way of keeping the boys off the street and out of mischief than giving them a plot of ground in which they can make a garden, the result to be their very own.
Creator
Conolly, Henry Milton
Date
1918