WHAT 1 KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 1/3 



wander away, and never be seen more. It 

 seemed to me a very simple thing, this garden 

 ing ; but it opens up astonishingly. It is like 

 the infinite possibilities in worsted-work. Polly 

 sometimes says to me, &quot; I wish you would call 

 at Bobbin s, and match that skein of worsted for 

 me when you are in town.&quot; Time was I used 

 to accept such a commission with alacrity and 

 self-confidence. I went to Bobbin s, and asked 

 one of his young men, with easy indifference, to 

 give me some of that. The young man, who is 

 as handsome a young man as ever I looked at, 

 and who appears to own the shop, and whose 

 suave superciliousness would be worth every 

 thing to a cabinet minister who wanted to 

 repel applicants for place, says, &quot; I have n t an 

 ounce: I have sent to Paris, and I expect it 

 every day. I have a good deal of difficulty in 

 getting that shade in my assortment.&quot; To think 

 that he is in communication with Paris, and 



