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encouragement to us? And doesn't nature's garden 

 have on and off seasons? So why shouldn't ours? 



" There is a quantity of Garden Goozle going about 

 nowadays that is as unbelievable, and quite as bad for 

 the constitution and pocket, as the guarantees of patent 

 medicines. No, Garden Goozle is not my word, you must 

 understand; it was invented by a clever professor of 

 agriculture, whom Bart met not long ago, and we loved 

 the word so much that we have adopted it. The mental 

 quality of Garden Goozle seems to be compounded of 

 summer squash and milkweed milk, and it would be 

 quite harmless were it not for the strong catbriers grafted 

 in the mass for impaling the purses of the trusting. 



"Ah, if we only lived a little nearer together, near 

 enough to talk over the garden fence ! It seems cruel 

 to ask you to write answers to all my questions, but after 

 listing the hardy plants I want for putting the garden on 

 a consistent old-time footing, I find the amount runs 

 quite to the impossible three figures, aside from every- 

 thing else we need, so I've decided on beginning with a 

 seed bed, and I want to know before we locate the new 

 asparagus bed how much ground I shall need for a 

 seed bed, what and how to plant, and everything else ! 



"I like all the hardy things you have, especially those 

 that are mice, lice, and water proof! If you will send 



