8 GAllSENING FOR YOUNG AND OLD. 



. He .son*etiine& \vistts me and takes a deep interest in all 

 that is going on. He is willing to learn, is not afraid of 

 work, and he is ready to adopt a new plan. If his father 

 would give him the chance, and the grandfather aid 

 him with his experience (as he will), this young man 

 will soon have a garden that is a garden ; in fact, he has 

 already commenced. He has enclosed about an acre of 

 land near the barn-yard, and adjoining the old garden. 

 It may not be big enough, but it will do to commence 

 with. This young man has been frequently in my mind 

 while writing this book. 



AN OLD AND A NEW GARDEN. 



I want to introduce a new system of gardening. I do 

 not wish to do away with the old gardens, but I would 

 see new ones on every farm. Moreover, I want to see them 

 big enough to admit of the use of the plow, the harrow, 

 the roller, and above all, of the horse-hoe, for cultivating 

 between the rows of growing plants. I have myself just 

 such a garden, and I have also an old-fashioned garden, 

 full of trees, and walks, and bushes, and weeds. There 

 are two or three beds of asparagus that do not amount to 

 much. In one corner there is a' mass of horse-radish, 

 and along the fence there is a row of currant bushes. 

 There was formerly a score or more of English goose- 

 berries, but the mildew and the Saw-fly have been too 

 much for them. We have grapevines growing vigor- 

 ously, and here and there a bed of beautiful roses. There 

 are beds of thyme, sage, rosemary, parsley, and rhu- 

 barb. The latter produces an. abundance of seed, but 

 only a few somewhat stringy stalks. This bed of rhu- 

 barb stands right across a strip of land where, but for it, 

 I could use a cultivator to great advantage. We have 

 peach trees, cherry trees, pear trees, raspberries, black- 

 berries, and strawberry beds. In short, it is a large, old- 



