104 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



tilizing are not agreeable. Michael Angelo, 

 who tried every art and nearly every trade, 

 never gave his mind to fertilizing. It is 

 much pleasanter and easier to fertilize with 

 a pen, as the agricultural writers do, than 

 with a fork. And this leads me to say that, 

 in carrying on a garden yourself, you must 

 have a "consulting" gardener; that is, a 

 man to do the heavy and unpleasant work. 

 To such a man, I say, in language used by 

 Demosthenes to the Athenians, and which is 

 my advice to all gardeners, " Fertilize, ferti- 

 lize, fertilize I " 



