112 EXPENSES. 



guine reader. " I have twenty acres, and may, 

 therefore, have an income of twenty thousand 

 dollars." 



Figure it out on land, my friend, and tell us 

 the result. It evidently is not good for us to 

 grow rich suddenly ; there are so few honest 

 ways of doing it, and gardening certainly is not 

 one of them. It is time, perhaps, that this 

 chapter on expenses should be put in as ballast. 

 One can build chateaux en Espagne at little 

 cost over a winter fire, but he cannot put up a 

 summer tool-house without a formidable bill. 



Moreover, amateur and inexperienced garden- 

 ers are proverbially extravagant, and I have 

 proved no exception. In commencing, our 

 dealings are with a shrewd, practical class, who 

 detect greenness at a glance, and often profit by 

 it. Such worthy souls, doubtless, satisfy then 

 consciences by the thought that they are selling 

 us experience at the same time. The beginner 



