22 ' MY SUMMER JN A GARDEN. 



straight. They were inexpensive "too. The 

 cheapness came about from my cutting them 

 on another man's land, and he did not know 

 it. I have not examined this transaction in 

 the moral light of gardening ; but I know 

 people in this country take great liberties 

 at the polls. Polly noticed that the beans 

 had not themselves come up in any proper 

 sense, but that the dirt had got off from 

 them, leaving them uncovered. She thought 

 it would be well to sprinkle a slight layer 

 of dirt over them ; and I, indulgently, con- 

 sented. It occurred to me, when she had 

 gone, that beans always come up that way, 

 wrong end first ; and that what they 

 wanted was light, and not dirt. 



Observation. Woman always did, from 

 the first, make a muss in a garden. 



I inherited with my garden a large patch 

 of raspberries. Splendid berry the rasp- 

 berry, when the strawberry has gone. This 

 patch has grown into such a defiant attitude 

 that you could not get within several feet 

 of it. Its stalks were enormous in size, and 



