14 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



den to his own selfish uses. He ought 

 not to please himself, but every man to 

 please his neighbor. I tried to have a 

 garden that would give general moral 

 satisfaction. It seemed to me that no 

 body could object to potatoes (a most 

 useful vegetable) ; and I began to plant 

 them freely. But there was a chorus of 

 protest against them. &quot;You don t want 

 to take up your ground with potatoes/ 

 the neighbors said : &quot; you can buy pota 

 toes &quot; (the very thing I wanted to avoid 

 doing is buying things). &quot;What you 

 want is the perishable things that you 

 cannot get fresh in the market.&quot; &quot;But 

 what kind of perishable things?&quot; Ahor- 

 ticulturalist of eminence wanted me to 

 sow lines of strawberries and raspberries 

 right over where I had put my potatoes 

 in drills. I had about five hundred straw 

 berry-plants in another part of my gar 

 den ; but this fruit-fanatic wanted me to 



