II. 



MY GARDEN ACCOUNTED FOR. 



ALTHOUGH I do not hold with the late la- 

 mented Diedrich Knickerbocker, that in writing 

 a history it is necessary to go back to the pre- 

 Adamic ages and account for everything up to 

 the time in question, still, in presenting my gar- 

 den to the reader, it is necessary to give some 

 account of myself; for, paradoxical as it may 

 seem, the material garden is largely a mental 

 product. The stony field looks very differently 

 now from what it did when I took it six years 

 ago, and that difference is due mainlv to 

 thought. I have planned it before going to 

 sleep at night, and laid it out when mastered by 

 my old enemy, sick headache, and too misera- 



