WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GAR- 

 DENING. 



FIRST WEEK. 



UNDER this modest title, I purpose to 

 write a series of papers, some of which will 

 be like many papers of garden-seeds, with 

 nothing vital in them, on the subject of gar- 

 dening ; holding that no man has any right 

 to keep valuable knowledge to himself, and 

 hoping that those who come after me, except 

 tax-gatherers and that sort of person, wiU 

 find profit in the perusal of my experience. 

 As my knowledge is constantly increasing, 

 there is likely to be no end to these papers. 

 They will pursue no orderly system of agri- 

 culture or horticulture, but range from topic 

 to topic, according to the weather and the 

 progress of the weeds, which may drive me 

 from one corner of the garden to the other. 



