9*5 MY GARDEN WHAT FRUITS WERE CULTIVATED 



all up in a bunch, as mine once were. On such 

 matters I can give a few crude hints, but when 

 it comes to the niceties of hybridization, etc., 

 such as my medical friend practises in moment'? 

 of leisure, I have nothing to say. 



If any have been beguiled into sitting at my 

 feet as disciples in expectation of the inner 

 mysteries, they had better move on. The ora- 

 cle is dumb. 



In time I hope to raise grapes that "au- 

 thorities " will press approvingly between their 

 critical lips at a horticultural exhibition. In 

 the meantime I am growing such as people 

 vho cannot get better are willing to eat and 

 pay for. My sales in '71 were three hundred 

 and twenty pounds, realizing thirty-seven dol- 

 lars and ninety-four cents. 



It should be added that, though as a family 

 we were not great producers of the classical 

 fruit, we were all greit consumers. It seemed 



