36 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



and rooting up your whole being. I suppose it 

 is less trouble to quietly cut them off at the top 

 say once a week, on Sunday, when you put on 

 your religious clothes and face, so that no one 

 will see them, and not try to eradicate the net- 

 work within. 



Remark. This moral vegetable figure is at 

 the service of any clergyman who will have the 

 manliness to come forward and help me at a 

 day's hoeing on my potatoes. None but the 

 orthodox need apply. 



I, however, believe in the intellectual, if not 

 the moral, qualities of vegetables, and especially 

 weeds. There was a worthless vine that (or 

 who) started up about midway between a grape- 

 trellis and a row of bean-poles, some three feet 

 from each, but a little nearer the trellis. When 

 it came out of the ground, it looked around to 

 see what it should do. The trellis was already 

 occupied. The bean-pole was empty. There 



