CONFESSIONS," " GAKDENEROLOGY" 

 AND "MISCELLANEOUS." 



Please, let me draw my breath for a few minutes, 

 then I shall continue my narration 



Now, behold ! my friends : I begin to believe that 

 I have recounted enough of my recollections, and that 

 it is high time I should come to the peroration of my 

 long spinning digressions, more or less edifying, but 

 rather the latter, and close the sluice of my overflow- 

 ing loquacity on that subject, and by resuming what I 

 have told you of my life as a man and as a gardener, 

 etc., etc. 



Have you ever been impressed with the idea that 

 the profession of a gardener is somewhat extraneous 

 in the existence oi a man ? Of a gardener ! Yes, of a 

 gardener ! ! That interjection seems to surprise you, 

 f oi 1 fancy from your hypothetical silence, that if you 

 had anything to say, you would say this : What the 



d does he mean with such question ? Well, 1 



mean (a& I have no false modesty, and do not wish to 



