42 MY GARDEN ITS LOCATION. 



they regard its care as belonging to the lower 

 and common layers of humanity in brief, to 

 those who are not rich. Gardeners, like dress- 

 makers, add much to their well-being. They 

 are useful creatures, like cows and other neces- 

 sary animals. I have had stately beings, whose 

 silks might help maintain their equilibrium, say 

 to me, with a gracious condescending air, " Ah, 

 Mr. Roe, ah, you, ah, raise magnificent straw- 

 berries. We enjoy them extremely. Good- 

 evening, sir ; " and I am dismissed as the high- 

 born dames who could not read, in olden times 

 waived off, with a passing compliment, some 

 humble poet who had ventured to write a son- 

 net in their honor. What higher meed could I 

 have than to know that she, robed in a three- 

 hundred-dollar silk, had enjoyed the fruit of my 

 labors " extremely." But I was so oblivious to 

 greatness as to find a check at the hotel- offir-e 

 morr satisfactory. 



