WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 7 1 



complaint. He is only a part of the untiring 

 resources which Nature brings against the hum 

 ble gardener. I desire to write nothing against 

 him which I should wish to recall at the last, 

 nothing foreign to the spirit of that beautiful 

 saying of the dying boy, &quot; He had no copy-book, 

 which, dying, he was sorry he had blotted.&quot; 



