314 CORN AND BEANS, ETC. 



the perfection of kissing, and without the slight- 

 est danger of scandal. 



But after all our poetry and sentiment, it is 

 when we come to the sense of taste, what we 

 put in our mouths, that we realize what the gar- 

 den does for us. The most practical souls can 

 appreciate this phase of the subject. All want 

 what comes from the garden, and so the gar- 

 dener thrives. He need never starve whose 

 business is to supply a universal need, nor does 

 a man work with less unction when, in helping 

 to supply the world in general, he is also sup- 

 plying himself in particular. Basing my belief 

 on the sense of taste, I know that the reader 

 will enter into my feelings as I set about the 

 labors of later spring, the time when we pre- 

 pate to secure some of the chief delicacies of 

 the garden. 



We will suppose that all the fruits of the 

 garden and o r chard are properly set out and 



