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people do not despise gardening, but rather re- 

 gard it as a fine art, and a little tasteful pres* 

 ent from its products establishes a true freema- 

 sonry at once. Thus, in addition to all other 

 uses, your garden teaches you human nature 

 and enriches you with friends. 



But how about the prospect when you come 

 to the garden itself? What is the lay of the 

 land ? It is a wonder that some of it lays still 

 at all, for it quite approaches a perpendicular. 

 Now, I doubt not but that many of my readers 

 have been imagining a smooth, mellow plot, 

 sloping gently to the south-east, as all orthodox 

 gardens should ; they have seen a rich loamy 

 soil that seeds would almost sink into by their 

 own weight. They may have been coveting a 

 sunny, favored spot where the curse, thut 

 changed Adam from a gentleman farmer to a 

 hard-working man, is suspended, and the only 

 trouble being to keep things from growing too 



