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are many different kinds so many that the novice 

 in gardening is somewhat puzzled to choose. For 

 tunately, by Weeville s advice, we had made an ex 

 cellent selection, and by changing the acre of onions 

 into an acre of Daniel O Rourkes we might .possibly 

 have enough for the family. As I have mentioned 

 before, the O Kourkes are not profuse bearers ; it 

 may be called a rather lucky chance if they bear any 

 thing but leaf, and consequently it is not in a mone 

 tary sense that |;hey are profitable ; the benefit they 

 confer is in enabling one to crow over one s city vis 

 itors. The dwarfs are not desirable. They consti 

 tuted our principal stock, and, useful as they might 

 be in the penance line, as edibles they compare un 

 favorably with pebbles. 



We had an immense quantity of beets, and had ex 

 perimented in divers ways of cooking them. We had 

 them boiled, baked, stuffed, and roasted, hot, cold, 

 pickled in vinegar, and even fried, but through it all 

 they were &quot; dead beets.&quot; I had serious ideas of try 

 ing to extract sugar from them ; but when Patrick in 

 formed me that Dandy Jim approved of their flavor, 

 I gave them over to his care. Our pole-beans, which 

 are good for pork and beans if any Christian eats 

 that dish and lives were also extremely successful. 

 The Limas bore a few pods, but that was after we re- 



