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MY GARDEN, 



We have a barometer at the garden : for horticultural purposes it 

 is nearly useless, as the influence of variation of atmospheric pressure 

 on organic beings is unknown. When it suddenly varies to any great 

 extent, the gardener should then beware of storms, and make all 

 tight before the hurricane arrives, or his roofs may be taken off, as 

 mine have been, in a sudden squall. 



The gardener ought ever to have at hand a pocket magnifying 

 glass to examine the leaves of his plants, as by its aid fungi and 

 insects may be detected, and their effects prevented. 



When the gardener has all the tools which I have described, he 

 is possessed of all that can be reasonably required to conduct his 

 garden with success and profit. 



" Strength may wield the ponderous spade, 

 May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home ; 

 But elegance, chief grace the garden shows 

 And most attractive, is the fair result 

 Of thought, the creature of a polished mind." 



COWPER'S The Garden. 



