180 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH. 



and every thing whatever which the earth produced 

 for the service of man, except what pertained to the 

 mineral kingdom-. No sooner would a seed-store is 

 sue a new catalogue than I had it, and devoured the 

 contents for the purpose of discovering novelties ; I 

 corresponded with distant florists for whatever they 

 produced as a specialty, or to obtain their descriptive 

 catalogue, and I really began to feel as though I were 

 a man of science myself. 



My particular attention had been given to the 

 flowers. This department had been under my charge 

 from the commencement, Patrick confining his exer 

 tions to the supply of edibles. I had run through 

 the general list of flowers, had purchased all the 

 hardy bedding sorts which could be obtained ready 

 to be set out, and had at last succeeded in compelling 

 them to grow in spite of their vigorous opposition. I 

 had conquered asters, columbine, anagallis, Jacoboea, 

 snap-dragon, phlox, foxglove, Canterbury bells, hya 

 cinths, tulips, crocuses, balsams, Callirrhoe, coreopsis, 

 pansies, poppies, lobelias, sweet peas, garden rockets, 

 larkspurs, verbenas, zinnias, and many more of the 

 common varieties, besides innumerable shrubs; but, 

 not content with these, my attention was turned to 

 another world, a higher one to overcome, and deeper 

 science to be applied. 



