Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-08


l." elementary virtues. say the phi
losophers. This exercise is also
~ an antidote for carking care. 10
lGIVlsle3l may likewise prove a panacea
- for poverty. II the unfortunate
ones Of the cities can be interested suf-
nciently And children learn to love flow
ers, to know the merits OF vegetables the
qualities Of trees and the habits and char
acteristics Of birds through school garden
ing.
Gardening Is a business with hundreds
Of men and women in and about Omaha.
With other hundreds, perhaps thousands.
IL Is pastime, or a field wherein to ex-
pertinent with pointer CLEANED from news
paper and magazine articles written by
theoretical gardeners who know Just how
the thing ought 10 be done, whether they
ever try their own formulas or not.
1t is safe to say there are as many kinds
OF gardeners as there are gardens Both
in the amateur and the professional gar
dens bent for work seems to be the first
essential allied to spirit Of application
sufficient to move mountains. Women Sc
cure as good results as men, and In some
cases much better. There Is very sub
stantial sprinkllng Of women among the
managers Of the market wagons that drive
into Omaha IN the truck season, and they
do business as successfully as the men. In
fact, many men who run big market gar
dens invariably send their wives to dis
pose OF the succulent fruit Of their labors.
Persons who are in the habit of going to
the public market to buy their vegetables,
any time between and II in the morning,
have noticed that there is a great difference
I'm the m0fhOds n me nd NIX
offer garden truck for sale. Occasionally
man is found who puts his green stuff up
in neat, ceanly fashion, and some Of the
women seem TO give no care to making
their wares attractive: but as a rule the
women in charge Of wagons give consider
able attention TO the attractive side, while
men take it for granted the vegetable in the
rough is what the buyers are after, with
out regard to how 1t is handled, wrapped or
tied.
A goodly proportion Of the market gar
deners have regular customers, like the big
hotels and restaurants, that buy all the
green stuff they bring in, and very seldom
do they appear at the public market
Others again have customers in the resi-
dence sections who look for their coming,
in season, as regularly as the mail carrier.
In the amateur gardener class will be
found not only mechanics and their wives,
on the back Of their home lots, but many
man and his WIFE who can afford the
luxury of a garden. The word luxury is
used advisedly, for where a garden is not
a necessity and treated as a business
with continuing care, It is something OF
an expense. An equipment of tools has to
be secured in the first place, as we'll as
seeds. Then a garden hose is a requisite
with sprinkling pot, weed digger az knee
ling and STOPPING is objected to) and
divers and sundry etceteras that cost more
or less, not the least OF which is medicine
for the disgracefully healthy insects that
find luxurious living in gardens, espe-
cially II the latter be at all neglected.
Some fat men make a success OF garden.
ing. II they have clever women or willing
children to assist them by doing the work
while the director general supplies the brair
power with satisfaction and a mind Al
rest. But to get down to the real worl
In the ground the slim. wiry man stand:
only second to the quiet lady with a sun
bonnet and a knife. who can smile at
garden patch and make 1t grow and thrive
The fat man seems to be handicapped by
the need for wasting great deal of his