74 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



said the patent-office seed was as difficult to raise 

 as an appropriation for the St. Domingo business. 

 The playful bean seemed also to please him ; 

 . and he said he had never seen such impres- 

 sive corn and potatoes at this time of year ; that 

 it was to him an unexpected pleasure, and one 

 of the choicest memories that he should take 

 away with him of his visit to New England. 



N. B. That corn and those potatoes which 

 General Gr nt looked at I will sell for seed, at 

 five dollars an ear, and one dollar a potato. 

 Office-seekers need not apply. 



Knowing the President's great desire for peas, 

 I kept him from that part of the garden where 

 the vines grow. But they could not be con- 

 cealed. Those who say that the President is 

 not a man easily moved are knaves or fools. 

 When he saw my pea-pods, ravaged by the 

 birds, he burst into tears. A man of war, he 

 knows the value of peas. I told him they were 



