WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 1/5 



the stuff home, and Polly says it is a perfect 

 match, and looks so pleased, and holds it up 

 with the work, at arm's length, and turns her 

 head one side, and then takes her needle, and 

 works it in ? Working in, I can see, my own 

 obligingness and amiability with every stitch. 

 Five cents is dirt cheap for such a pleasure. 



The things I may do in my garden multiply 

 on my vision. How fascinating have the cata- 

 logues of the nurserymen become ! Can I raise 

 all those beautiful varieties, each one of which 

 is preferable to the other ? Shall I try all the 

 kinds of grapes, and all the sorts of pears ? I 

 have already fifteen varieties of strawberries 

 (vines) ; and I have no idea that I have hit 

 the right one. Must I subscribe to all the mag- 

 azines and weekly papers which offer premiums 

 of the best vines ? O that all the strawberries 

 were rolled into one, that I could enclose all 

 its lusc.iousness in one bite J O for the good old 



