WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 1 75 



the stuff home, and Polly says it is a perfect 

 match, and looks so pleased, and holds it up 

 with the work, at arm s length, and turns her 

 head one side, and then takes her needle, and 

 works it in ? Working in, I can see, my own 

 obligingness and amiability with every stitch. 

 Five cents is dirt cheap for such a pleasure. 



The things I may do in my garden multiply 

 on my vision. How fascinating have the cata 

 logues of the nurserymen become ! Can I raise 

 all those beautiful varieties, each one of which 

 is preferable to the other ? Shall I try all the 

 kinds of grapes, and all the sorts of pears ? I 

 have already fifteen varieties of strawberries 

 (vines) ; and I have no idea that I have hit 

 the right one. Must I subscribe to all the mag 

 azines and weekly papers which offer premiums 

 of the best vines ? O that all the strawberries 

 were rolled into one, that I could enclose all 

 its lusciousness in one bite . O for the good old 



