*'The sturdy seedling with arched body comes. 

 Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs." 

 — Putting in the Seed — Robert Frost. 



"Could I but show to you the cabbages which mine own 

 hands have planted in my garden at Salona, you would no 

 longer urge me to relinquish the enjoyment of happiness 

 for the pursuit of power." — Diocletian's answer to Maxi- 

 mian when urged to resume the Imperial purple. 



"He who sows the ground with care and diligence ac- 

 quires a greater stock of religious merit than he could 

 gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers." — The 

 Zend- A vesta — Zoroaster. 



CHAPTER XX 



The Vegetable Garden 



AND here at the last we come to the first 

 L kind of garden that was made — whether we 

 speak in the figurative language which places 

 stern necessity just outside the gates of Eden and 

 consequent upon a certain lady's misadventure 

 with an apple, or in the more prosaic terms of 

 anthropology. For man planted and tended 

 food plants ages and ages before he dreamed of 

 troubling himself with tending a rose — or even 

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