NINTH WEEK. 



AM more and more impressed with the 

 moral qualities of vegetables, and con- 

 template forming a science which shall 

 rank with comparative anatomy and compara- 

 tive philology, the science of comparative 

 vegetable morality. We live in an age of pro- 

 toplasm. And, if life-matter is essentially the 

 same in all forms of life, I purpose to begin 

 early, and ascertain the nature of the plants for 

 which I am responsible. I will not associate 

 with any vegetable which is disreputable, or has 

 not some quality that can contribute to my 

 moral growth. I do not care to be seen much 

 with the squashes or the dead-beets. Fortu- 



