THIRD WEEK. 



BELIEVE that I have found, if not 

 original sin, at least vegetable total de- 

 pravity in my garden ; and it was there 

 before I went into it. It is the bunch, or joint, 

 or snake-grass, whatever it is called. As I do 

 not know the names of all the weeds and plants, 

 I have to do as Adam did in his garden, n^me 

 things as I find them. This grass has a slender, 

 beautiful stalk : and when you cut it down, or 

 pull up a long root of it, you fancy it is got rid 

 of ; but in a day or two it will come up in the 

 same spot in half a dozen vigorous blades. Cut- 

 ting down and pulling up is what it thrives on. 

 Extermination rather helps it. If you follow a 



