WHEN TO COMMENCE A GARDEN. 147 



Much of the garden can again be profitably 

 planted, as we hope to show. 



When autumn winds first commence sighing 

 regretfully over the summer season fast depart- 

 ing, and the coming of sere winter, there is a 

 great falling off of interest in the garden on the 

 part of the majority. The spring, with its 

 excitement of hope and promise, the summer, 

 with its satiety of full return, or its disappoint- 

 ment at failure, are nearly past, and the mind is 

 turning to other pursuits and novelties. The 

 garden is neglected, and mainly because it 

 seems to require little attention, and to promise 

 little more for the year. The hardy fruits and 

 vegetables have got so far along that they will 

 mature any way, and not a few who were 

 enthusiastic in April, are now, as far as the 

 garden is concerned, like much in it, on the 

 decline. The number of amateurs who are like 

 what the Bible calls stony-ground hearers, is 



