36 MY SUMMER IN /I GARDEN. 



and rooting up your whole being. I suppose it 

 is less trouble to quietly cut them off at the top 

 say once a week, on Sunday, when you put on 

 your religious clothes and face, so that no on$ 

 will see them, and not try to eradicate the net 

 work within. 



Remark. This moral vegetable figure is at 

 the service of any clergyman who will have the 

 manliness to come forward and help me at a 

 day s hoeing on my potatoes. None but the 

 orthodox need apply. 



I, however, believe in the intellectual, if not 

 the moral, qualities of vegetables, and especially 

 weeds. There was a worthless vine that (or 

 who) started up about midway between a grape- 

 trellis and a row of bean-poles, some three feet 

 from each, but a little nearer the trellis. When 

 ft came out of the ground, it looked around to 

 Bee what it should do. The trellis was already 

 occupied. The bean-pole was empty. There 



