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the distingue people one meets at a watering- 

 place who will not bear investigation. Still I 

 expect I shall go on buying costly novelties to 

 the end of life. There is an innate passion for 

 speculation in human nature, and this is perhaps 

 so mild a form of its indulgence as to be permis- 

 sible to a minister. 



Then it is well to sow seed thickly, as it 

 must run a gauntlet of late frosts, drought, cold 

 rains, and bugs innumerable, and it is much 

 more profitable to thin out than plant over 

 again. My seed bill was fifty-one dollars and 

 thirty-five cents, but I am satisfied that thirty 

 dollars would have bought all necessary. 



For tools thirty-seven dollars and ninety-five 

 cents were expended, but three-fourths of this 

 sum went for a large water-barrel on wheels 

 which saves the labor of carrying it by hand tc 

 the hot-beds and cold frames. Three dollars 

 was expended for glass, and seventeen dollars 



