66 MY GARDEN WHAT FRUITS WERE CULTIVATED. 



weeding, are drawn to them with the certainty 

 of gravitation ; and the centrifugal force re- 

 quired to keep them out among the vegetables 

 is nearly as exhaustive as doing the weeding 

 one's self. I use the shaded ground however 

 for composts, preparing fruits and vegetables for 

 market, and have lately occupied quite a por- 

 tion of it as a chicken yard. Though the fruit 

 belongs to my good landlord, he is very gener- 

 ous with it, and I was glad to get the ground 

 with so slight a drawback. But no apples have 

 entered into my sales. 



In the next place I had three rows of cherry 

 currants, ninety-three feet long, and one row of 

 forty-eight feet. Besides these there were a 

 number of small plants that have since Com- 

 menced fruiting, and about twenty -five bushes 

 of the old common kind. Nearly all are young 

 and not very large as yet, and altogether not 

 over \m-.ty are bearing, some producing but 



