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Arbitrary measures won't answer, as some of 

 my readers outside of the garden may have dis- 

 covered. 



I now consider that I have done all in my 

 power to secure succotash, and therefore happi- 

 ness, to my readers. May not come grateful 

 sighs of memory mingled with the mouthsfu) 

 next July ? If what is esteemed the profound- 

 est human philosophy be true, I have gained 

 some hold on the popular heart. 



We close with a few marriages, as all ortho- 

 dox stories should. 



It now but remains to link the labors of late 

 spring and of summer with those before de- 

 scribed, as appropriately commencing with 

 autumn, and then to bow myself out. 



The tomato has probably been the most 

 profitable vegetable that I have raised. It will 



