WHAT 1 KNOW ABOUT GARDENING. 73 



I did not change the subject ; but nothing 

 further was said by General Gr nt. 



The President is a great talker (contrary 

 to the general impression) ; but I think he 

 appreciated his quiet hour in my garden. 

 He said it carried him back to his youth 

 farther than anything he had seen lately. 

 He looked forward with delight to the time 

 when he could again have his private garden, 

 grow his own lettuce and tomatoes, and not 

 have to get so much " sarce " from Con- 

 gress. 



The chair in which the President sat, 

 while declining to take a glass of lager, I 

 have had destroyed, in order that no one may 

 sit in it. It was the only way to save it, if 

 I may so speak. It would have been impos- 

 sible to keep it from use by any precautions. 

 There are people who would have sat in it, 

 if the seat had been set with iron spikes. 

 Such is the adoration of Station. 



