148 MHEN TO COMMENCE A GARDEN. 



marvellously large. During hot July their 

 interest dries up, exhales, and their gardens go 

 to the bad. 



There is also this somewhat mean tendency in 

 human nature, that when we have got about all 

 out of a person or thing that can be hoped for 

 at present, or when persons are so committed, 

 like a crop nearly matured, that they will give 

 what is expected any way, we are apt to flag in 

 our attentions. Here is where the short-sighted 

 fail, for neither persons nor gardens will continue 

 to commit themselves in our favor under such 

 treatment. I have lost bushels of berries, not 

 in June, thr strawberry month, but in August 

 and Septeiuher, when the beds should have 

 been made and eared for. I have lost hundreds 

 of dollars, not in April and May, but in the 

 autumn, when the seeds of spring crops should 

 have been sown, and in the winter, when they 

 should have been properly protected. 



