Gardening: It’s Not All Unceasing Drudgery

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Cheryl Long, the editor in chief here at MOTHER, handed me a few old books a couple months back that were given to her by a rare-book expert, Keith Crotz. I’ve been meaning to flip through the books, and this afternoon, while cleaning up my desk at the end of the day, I finally picked one up.  

It’s called How to Make the Garden Pay and it was written in 1890 by T. Greiner. I opened to the “Preliminary Remarks by the Author,” and this was the first sentence I read: 

“Gardening, in the minds of average people, is a dreadful combination in its requirements of skill and unceasing drudgery.” 

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