The Rescue of an Old Place 



ward to, something to be proud of, but it 

 is a tremendous burden when it comes. 

 The gathering is an important labor, but 

 taking care of it when it is gathered is in- 

 finitely worse. The pears, especially, must 

 be watched daily, turned and selected, 

 and the refuse rejected, till their owner 

 would be happier if he never saw a Bart- 

 lett or a Jargonelle again. The early 

 apples, welcome and useful as they are, 

 demand the closest attention, and it is not 

 until the last Russet is gathered, and bar- 

 reled, and stowed away in the cellar for 

 winter use, that the amateur farmer can 

 have an easy mind. 

 Profit in a Perhaps it would be wiser to choose be- 



garden after 



ail. tween ornamental and useful management 



of a place to begin with, and content your- 

 self with either a farm or a garden, as the 

 case might be ; but in this event, though 

 one would probably have better results to 

 show, he would miss much of the fun of 

 the more helter-skelter methods of land- 

 scape-practice, as well as the profits of 

 orderly market-gardening, which can never 

 be very successful in the hands of ama- 

 teurs. There is, however, a sense of profit 

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