. Dreer's Open-air vegetables . Few tools are absolutely essential to success if the gardener be enthusiastic. It is far more important to know what should be done than to have the tools with which to do the work. It is better to understand that deep culture, heavy manuring and irrigation are necessary than to have a well- stocked implement house without an appreciation of cultural requirements. Enthusiasm and industry will soon supply all needed tools, though the gardener be penniless at the start. As commercial conditions are at this time, it is abso- lutely imperative that soil-workers keep
. Dreer's Open-air vegetables . Few tools are absolutely essential to success if the gardener be enthusiastic. It is far more important to know what should be done than to have the tools with which to do the work. It is better to understand that deep culture, heavy manuring and irrigation are necessary than to have a well- stocked implement house without an appreciation of cultural requirements. Enthusiasm and industry will soon supply all needed tools, though the gardener be penniless at the start. As commercial conditions are at this time, it is abso- lutely imperative that soil-workers keep well within their financial circumstances. This can only be done by limiting the hired help to the minimum point and by concentration in cultural operations. The universal American disposition is to work a ten-acre garden on a five-acre capital; and American farms are mostly too large. On small gardens and farms the implements and tools would be better, the seeds and seeding would be better, the fertilizing and cultivation would be better, and the result- ing crops would be comparatively larger and more profitable. Quality counts to-day for more than quantity in net profits. A few essentials underlie success in present-day horticul-
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