46 MY GARDEN ITS LOCATION. 



fast and large. I wish they were right, but 

 the facts are against them. 



Nearly "half my garden is down hill toward 

 the north, and some of it at an angle that would 

 soon bring one to China, if it continued far 

 enough. Not a little of it is a high, gravelly 

 knoll, on which only certain vegetables that 

 are like the people of Vermont, who get along 

 anywhere, will grow. Therefore, my garden 

 is a sort of agricultural paradox, for though 

 it is mainly down hill, it demands decidedly 

 up-hill work. Still lying between these two 

 northern slopes is a swale of most excellent 

 land, and here I have accomplished my chief 

 successes. My soil has one great advantage. I 

 can get to work on it as soon as the frost is 

 out, and even before. I have put in early 

 crops where the plough or spade turned up 

 frozen lumps of earth that were like small 

 boulders. There is no need of impatient 



