32 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



garden will wake a person up two hours before 

 he ought to be out of bed) and think of the 

 tomato-plants, the leaves like fine lace-work, 

 owing to black bugs that skip around, and can t 

 be caught. Somebody ought to get up before 

 the dew is off, (why don t the dew stay on till 

 after a reasonable breakfast ?) and sprinkle soot 

 on the leaves. I wonder if it is I. Soot is so 

 much blacker than the bugs, that they are dis 

 gusted, and go away. You can t get up too 

 early, if you have a garden. You must be early 

 due yourself, if you get ahead of the bugs. I 

 think, that, on the whole, it would be best to sit 

 up all night, and sleep daytimes. Things ap 

 pear to go on in the night in the garden uncom 

 monly. It would be less trouble to stay up than 

 it is to get up so early. 



I have been setting out some new raspberries, 

 two sorts, a silver and a gold color. How fine 

 they will look on the table next year in a cut- 



