MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 13 



SECOND WEEK. 



&quot;1VTEXT to deciding when to start 

 ^-^ your garden, the most important 

 matter is, what to put in it. It is diffi 

 cult to decide what to order for dinner 

 on a given day : how much more op 

 pressive is it to order in a lump an end 

 less vista of dinners, so to speak ! For, 

 unless your garden is a boundless prairie 

 (and mine seems to me to be that when 

 I hoe it on hot days), you must make a 

 selection, from the great variety of vege 

 tables, of those you will raise in it ; and 

 you feel rather bound to supply your 

 own table from your own garden, and to 

 eat only as you have sown. 



I hold that no man has a right (what 

 ever his sex, of course) to have a- gar- 



