MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



SECOND WEEK. 



NEXT to deciding when to start your 

 garden, the most important matter is, what 

 to put in it. It is difficult to decide what 

 to order for dinner on a given day: how 

 much more oppressive is it to order in 

 a lump an endless vista of dinners, so to 

 speak ! For, unless your garden is a bound- 

 less prairie (and mine seems to me to be 

 that when I hoe it on hot days), you must 

 make a selection, from the great variety of 

 vegetables, of those you will raise in it; 

 and you feel rather bound to supply your 

 own table from your own garden, and to 

 eat only as you have sown. 



I hold that no man has a right (whatever 

 his sex, of course) to have a garden to his 

 own selfish uses. He ought not to please 

 himself, but every man to please his neigh- 

 bor. I tried to have a garden that would 



