WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 45 



church, and a very good sort of woman, con- 

 sidering the subject condition of that class, 

 who says that the weeds work on her to that 

 extent that, in going through her garden, 

 she has the greatest difficulty in keeping 

 the ten commandments in anything like an 

 unfractured condition. I asked her which 

 one, but she said, all of them : one felt like 

 breaking the whole lot. The sort of weed 

 which I most hate (if I can be said to hate 

 anything which grows in my own garden) is 

 the " pusley," a fat, ground-clinging, spread- 

 ing, greasy thing, and the most propagations 

 (it is not my fault if the word is not in the 

 dictionary) plant I know. I saw a China- 

 man, who came over with a returned mission- 

 ary, and pretended to be converted, boil a lot 

 of it in a pot, stir in eggs, and mix and eat 

 it with relish, " Me likee he." It will be 

 a good thing to keep the Chinamen on when 

 they come to do our gardening. I only fear 

 they will cultivate it at the expense of the 

 strawberries and melons. Who can say 

 that other weeds, which we despise, may not 



