IX. 



GROUND FOR A GARDEN WHAT KIND 

 SHALL I TAKE. 



WE would say in general, the best you cac 

 get, adding, any that you can get rather than 

 not have a garden at all. Plants like to grow 

 and Nature likes to have them. The most 

 unpromising spots have been made quite Eden- 

 jike, and there is a principle in our nature 

 4 hat leads us to enjoy conquering and subdu- 

 ing. The civilized state of our society pre- 

 vents our doing this on the Caesar and Alex- 

 ander plan, and that phase which modern 

 belles often push to such extremes, is scarcely 

 a manly recreation. But the subduing of a 

 wild stony piece of land still affords true scope 



