WILL YOU WALK INTO MY GARDEN? 9 



" The idea of raising anything by such rough 

 commonplace methods ; it's a wonder he got 

 his seed back." 



Yet, thanks to kindly Mother Earth, she will 

 give a struggling onion or a radish a good lift 

 on in the world, though straggling about in 

 places where they have no business to be, and 

 not planted according to " the book." At 

 times, when absent from home, I have met 

 some of " the agricultural authorities," and have 

 ventured to put my " small treble " in the sono- 

 rous discussions of the ways and means. But 

 they would look over their spectacles at me with 

 an expression such as might rest on the venera- 

 ble faces of a Presbytery of ripe and thoroughly 

 indoctrinated divines, when a young licentiate 

 presumes to express an opinion on that which 

 they had settled long ago. In fact, I was at first 

 led into painful misgivings, and feared that on 

 my return I should find a miserable blight steal- 



