WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 29 



you get ahead of the bugs. I think that 

 on the whole it would be best to sit up all 

 night, and sleep daytimes. Things appear 

 to go on in the night in the garden uncom- 

 monly. It would be less trouble to stay up 

 than it is to get up so early. 



I have been setting out some new raspber- 

 ries, two sorts, a silver and a gold color. 

 How fine they will look on the table next 

 year in a cut-glass dish, the cream being in 

 a ditto pitcher ! I set them four and five 

 feet apart. I set my strawberries pretty 

 well apart also. The reason is to give room 

 for the cows to run through when they break 

 into the garden, as they do sometimes. 

 A cow needs a broader track than a locomo- 

 tive ; and she generally makes one. I am 

 sometimes astonished to see how big a space 

 in a flower-bed her foot will cover. The 

 raspberries are called Doolittle and Golden 

 Cap. I don't like the name of the first 

 variety, and if they do much shall change 

 it to Silver Top. You never can tell what 

 a thinq; named Doolittle will do. The one 



