MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 175 



NINETEENTH WEEK. 



ri^HE closing scenes are not necessa- 

 -*- rily funereal. A garden should 

 be got ready for winter as well as for 

 summer. When one goes into winter- 

 quarters, he wants every thing neat and 

 trig. Expecting high winds, we bring 

 every thing into close reef. Some men 

 there are who never shave (if they are 

 so absurd as ever to shave), except when 

 they go abroad, and who do not take 

 care to wear polished boots in the bosoms 

 of their families. I like a man who 

 shaves (next to one who doesn t shave) 

 to satisfy his own conscience, and not for 

 display, and who dresses as neatly at 

 home as he does anywhere. Such a man 

 will be likely to put his garden in com- 



