72 MY GARDEN WHAT FRUITS WERE CULTIVATED. 



But in memory of certain predatory incursions 

 of my own upon strawberry-beds in the past, 

 I felt impelled to charity. I believe, also, 

 that birds and bugs have certain vested rights 

 from Nature that no arbitrary civilization should 

 wrest from them. It is only when they take 

 more than their share that we should commence 

 "proceedings " against them. 



But with all these abstractions and without 

 reckoning what was consumed in the miscella- 

 neous ways mentioned, the above-named quan- 

 tity sold for the good round sum of five hun- 

 dred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-five cents. 



The next fruit in the order of ripening be- 

 longs to the raspberry family, and is familiarly 

 known as the Blackcap. I have cultivated with 

 success three varieties : the Dav'idson's Thorn- 

 less, the Mammoth Cluster, and the Doolittle, 

 and find the Doolittles do the most of any of 

 them. 



