With some men it does; with others it does not. The man who has a taste for the business; who strives to master all its details and obstacles; who has the proper soil, a good market and is honest in his dealings, and who has plenty of brains, manure and gumption, even though he has but a small capital and a limited experience, is bound to make it pay. On the other hand, the man who depends wholly on his hired help to do the work and furnish the experience, and who plants more ground than he has manure for, or than he can take care of properly ; who markets his produce in a slovenly manner from a rickety wagon that carries the spring mud until fall; whose measures are not up to the standard; who spends more time in patching up his old tomato crates and barrels than on the land; who will bet $10 on a horse trot, but would think it extravagance to invest $5 in an improved garden implement ; who buys his seeds from the man who sells the cheapest and then blames the season if his crops are a failure, stays at the business as long as his capital lasts, growls at everybody and everything, and then cries that gardening doesn't pay. - John Jeannin, Jr., Rensselaer Co., N. Y.