MV GARDEN WHAT FRUITS WERE CULTIVATED. 6$ 



but slender cones of green. The season is at 

 its height, and the withering breath of hot July 

 has not shrivelled a leaf. At this season you 

 would think there was a great deal in my gar- 

 den. 



In the first place there are sixteen large ap- 

 ple-trees, and though my garden is a grand 

 thing for them, they having improved greatly 

 since the ground has been brought into a high 

 state of cultivation, their shade is mainly lost 

 space. Some of my boys also find more to do 

 under them than where the sun shines. I do 

 not know whether all trees would have the same 

 effect, or whether from the first there has been 

 some mysterious attraction about the apple- 

 tree. Between the fruit on them, though green 

 and bitter in its immaturity, and the shade un- 

 der them, they have a tempting power that few 

 in my garden resist at all times, while sundry 



idle urchins, picked up in the streets and put to 

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