WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. IO/ 



Mr. Greeley, " if the ground is left level." I 

 have corn in my garden, ten and twelve feet 

 high, strong and lusty, standing the drought 

 like a grenadier ; and it is hilled. In advising 

 this radical change, Mr. Greeley evidently has 

 a political purpose. He might just as well say 

 that you should not hill beans, when everybody 

 knows that a " hill of beans " is one of the most 

 expressive symbols of disparagement. When I 

 become too lazy to hill my corn, I, too, shall go 

 into politics. 



I am satisfied that it is useless to try to culti- 

 vate " pusley." I set a little of it one side, and 

 gave it some extra care. It did not thrive as 

 well as that which I was fighting. The fact is, 

 there is a spirit of moral perversity in the plant, 

 which makes it grow the more, the more it is 

 interfered with. I am satisfied of that. I doubt 

 if any one has raised more " pusley " this year 

 than I have ; and my warfare with it has been 



