32 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



garden will wake a person up two hours before 

 he ought to be out of bed) and think of the 

 tomato-plants, the leaves like fine lace-work, 

 owing to black bugs that skip around, and can't 

 be caught. Somebody ought to get up before 

 the dew is off, (why don't the dew stay on till 

 after a reasonable breakfast ?) and sprinkle soot 

 on the leaves. I wonder if it is I. Soot is so 

 much blacker than the bugs, that they are dis- 

 gusted, and go away. You can't get up too 

 early, if you have a garden. You must be early 

 due yourself, if you get ahead of the bugs. I 

 think, that, on the whole, it would be best to sit 

 up all night, and sleep daytimes. Things ap- 

 pear to go on in the night in the garden uncom- 

 monly. It would be less trouble to stay up than 

 it is to get up so early. 



I have been setting out some new raspberries, 

 two sorts, a silver and a gold color. How fine 

 they will look on the table next year in a cut- 



