Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-26
n Garden.

Every man, however limited his means
should contrive to have and cultivate a
garden. There are three strong reasons
for it:
1. Working in garden is highly con-
ductive to health. The exercise is gen
tie; it is united with amusement, and by
it both the body and the spirits are invig.
Grated. THERE'S something in the odor
Of the earth that strengthens the whole
system. Let the sedentary man take up
the pruning knife and spend an hour of
the dewy morning among st his vines, or
the spade, hoe or rake and prepare or
work over his asparagus, lettuce or rad
ish beds, and he will thus give tone and
vlgor to his body and mind for the severe
studies of his desk. The teacher will
teach all the better; the minister will
preach all the better for the mind exer-
else which the garden gives. For this
natural employment Of the bones and
muscles of the system an hour or two's
practice in the gymnasium is but mis-
cradle substitute, since the health-im-
parting exhalations from the ground, as
we'll as the interest and variety are want
ing.
2. The garden is a teacher. There
nature is at work, producing her most
beautiful forms and transformations. No
man can witness attentively the germi-
nation of the seed, the uprising of the
blade, the unfolding of the flower, the
maturing of the fruit, without at the
same time becoming wiser, nobler, and
better. The vegetable, the mineral
kingdoms here meet and work together.
To the curious every in this working
offers something fresh for meditation
Why, for instance, the plumula ascend?
Why doesit incline toward the sun? Why
does it assume this or that tint2 Why
does the sap arise in it? Why does this
plant take to this kind of nutriment, an
other to that? Why is thorn given to
this vegetable, an acrid juice to this and
honey to that2 Why does the dandelion
shoot forth in the spring and the aster in
the autumn2 Why is this leaf orbicular,
this heart-shaped, this needle-shapedE
Why is this plant medicinal, this poison
Gus? Why is this flower fragrant, this
scentless? And thousand other curious
questions constantly arise to awaken
thought.
8. The garden is source OF profit.
have known a man who realized as much
from what he sold from his garden of one
half acre, as his hard working brother did
from what he sold from his farm OF more
than one hundred acres. 1t is said that
man consumes about sixteen hundred
pounds per annum. How much Of this
could and should come from the gardens
II can buy my vegetables" says one
standing by, and who calls in the doctor
frequently, "cheaper than I can raise
them" Not so, indeed, answer, if you
take into account the health and instruc-
ton impaired by the garden. Then it is
so delightful to see your own lettuce,
radishes, tomatoes, melones, peas, beans
and sweet corn growing. It is so pleasant
to go out and pick with your own hands
your own currants, grapes, pears and
peaches: And what if you happen to
raise a few s''ch things to give away to
your poor neighbor? Does it not all come
in for profit? A garden then promotes
your health, imparts instruction and
greatly helps to sustain your table. 1t
helps other people also. Some things
you can afford to do without, but I see
not how you can live a really happy life
without garden. Do you?-Gor. Ger.
Telegraph.