78 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



you to notice how far it is from the 

 exclusive hauteur of the aristocratic 

 strawberry, and the native refinement 

 of the quietly elegant raspberry. 



I do not know that chemistry, search 

 ing for protoplasm, is able to discover 

 the tendency of vegetables. It can 

 only be found out by outward observa 

 tion. I confess that I am suspicious of 

 the bean, for instance. There are signs 

 in it of an unregulated life. I put up 

 the most attractive sort of poles for my 

 Limas. They stand high and straight, 

 like church-spires, in my theological 

 garden, lifted up; and some of them 

 have even budded, like Aaron s rod. 

 No church-steeple in a New-England 

 village was ever better fitted to draw 

 to it the rising generation on Sunday, 

 than those poles to lift up my beans 

 towards heaven. Some of them did run 

 up the sticks seven feet, and then 



