48 AMERICAN GARDENER. 



observe, the earth is to be level, and not slo/iing, 

 like the glass. The glas is sloping to meet the 

 sun, and to turn off the wet ; but, the earth must 

 lie perfectly level ; and this, you will observe, is 

 a very great point. 



77. Next comes the act of sowing. The more 

 handsomely this is done, the better it is done. A 

 handsome dress is better than an ugly one, not 

 because it is warmer, or cooler, but because, 

 liking it better, being more pleased with it, we 

 take more care of it. Those who have seen tpo 

 or three women together, crossing dirty streets, 

 or in danger from horses or carriages, where the 

 volunteer assistance of men became useful ; those 

 philosophers, who have been spectators of scenes 

 like this, cannot have failed to discover, that 

 humanity, like smoke, is very apt to fly to the 

 fairest; and I much question whether Nicodemus 

 Broadbrim himself, if he saw a pretty girl and 



ugly one stuck in the mud, would not give his 

 hand to the former. He would hand them both 

 out to a certainty ; but, he would extricate the 

 pretty one first. There is a great deal in the 

 look of our gardens and fields ; and, surely, in so 

 diminutive a concern as a hot-bed, all ought to be 

 neat and regular. Seeds are great Cell-tales ; 

 for, when they come up, we discover all the care- 

 lessness that may have prevailed at the sowing 

 of them. 



78. When you have taken off all the lights, 

 make little drills with your finger, from the back 

 of the bed to the front, half an inch deep, and 

 about an inch a-p,art. Make them equi-distant, 

 parallel, and straight. Then drop in your Cab 

 bage seeds along the drills, very thin; but, twentij 



