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pleasant, more free from temptation to evil, 

 this amusement than any other ! How much 

 more instructive too ! " Bend the twig when 

 young:" but, here, there needs no force ; nay, 

 not even persuasion. The thing is so pleasant 

 in itself; it so naturally meets the wishes ; that 

 the taste is fixed at once, and it remains, to 

 the exclusion of cards and dice, to the end of 

 life. 



123. This is, with me, far more than sufficient 

 to outweigh even a plausible objection on the 

 score of expense. Such husbands and fathers as 

 are accessible by arguments like these, will need 

 nothing more to induce them to yield to my re- 

 commendation : with such as are not, no argu- 

 ments within the reach of my capacity would be 

 ;f any avail. 



CHAPTER III. 



On Propagation and Cultivation in general. 



124. In order to have good Vegetables, Herbs, 

 Fruits, and Flowers, we must be careful and 

 diligent in the Propagation and Cultivation of the 

 several plants ; for, though nature does much, 

 she will not do all. He, who trusts to chance 

 for a ctop, deserves none, and he generally has 

 what he deserves. 



125. The PROPAGATION of plants is the bring- 

 mg of them forth, or the increasing and multifily 

 of them. This is effected in several different 

 -ways : by seed, by suckers, by offsets, by layers, 



