A WOMAN'S HARDY GARDEN 



the vegetable garden with "kohbabi" and 

 "korn salad." We had never heard of these 

 delicacies before, and did not care for them. 

 I remember also his telling me that one 

 kind of flower was enough to raise anyway. 



If a young man with an elementary knowl- 

 edge of gardening can be found, who wants 

 to learn, is strong, willing and intelligent, it 

 is better to supply most of the brains your- 

 self. You will find your own wishes more 

 apt to be carried out than by the gardener 

 who "knows it all," and seems to resent 

 what he calls "interference" on the part of 

 his employer. 



I remember, when a child, seeing my 

 father's gardener walking about in the early 

 evening after his supper, smoking a medita- 

 tive pipe, tying up Roses or spraying plants, 

 and often setting out seedlings after sun- 

 down. He was never idle; he loved his 

 work and attended to it. But now it is rare 

 indeed to see a gardener, after hours, going 

 about his work ; autre temps autres moeurs, 



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