150 WHEN TO COMMENCE A GARDEN. 



yet I cm assure the reader that one thriftless 

 gardener or amateur, whose enthusiasm July has 

 withered, can do more cursing or weed-seeding 

 than half a generation can eradicate. My con- 

 science troubles me not a little in this respect. 

 Apart from the profit there should be principle 

 in the case. Having put our hands to the 

 plough in April, we should not look back in 

 August, because many of our crops are gathered 

 and the thing is becoming an old story. 



But having more faith in the profit argument 

 than any based on principle, we hasten to as- 

 sure the reader again, that if he hopes for con- 

 tinued crops and considerable cash, he must 

 make the most of autumn. 



Not to be invidious, or intimate that any of 

 my readers are guilty of such shortcomings, 

 we will suppose a place bought of one of the 

 unregenerate, and the new and agriculturally 

 enlightened owner to be taking possession. 



