188 FIVE ACKES TOO MUCH. 



efforts of the American civet, an animal vulgarly 

 known by a more plebeian name. When they were 

 finally eradicated the garden looked quite bare, and 

 a fresh application had to be made to the florists for 

 bedding plants to fill up the vacancies. I still be 

 lieve in science, but seedsmen should be more full in 

 their descriptions or more careful in their selections ; 

 certainly stink-weeds are not very desirable flowers, 

 even under the romantic name Datura or Mete- 

 loides. 



