CHAPTER II 



REBUILDING THE GARDEN OF EDEN 



What is your idea of Eden? If you had to 

 write a description of it, you would find yourself, 

 at the end adding a list of your favorite flowers 

 — and, of course, some fruits. You might omit 

 the apple; but peaches, and their blushing cous- 

 ins the nectarines; pears; and "the grape, that 

 can with logic absolute, and two-and-seventy 

 jarring sects confute" — for these, you would 

 surely provide! 



It doesn't necessarily take a "range" of 

 greenhouses, with an imported gardener and an 

 expensive corps of assistants, to do all of this. 

 The fact is, you can grow a wide range of things 

 in a single house; and in one house with a glass 

 partition a surpassingly large variety may be 

 grown. 



The first greenhouse I ever had was 15 feet 

 wide and 20 feet long. I cut the logs from which 

 the sashes were sawed, took them to the sawmill 

 and then to the planing mill myself. The glass 

 was obtained from old photographers' plates 



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