EVERY WOMAN HER OWN FLOWER GARDENER. 131 



Men must take care of the paths, and prepare the soil. We, of the 

 weaker sex, can surely do the rest if we please so to do. One of the 

 finest -vegetable gardens I ever saw, was tended by a lady over sixty 

 years of age, and so crippled, by an accident, that she could not walk 

 without a crutch. Yet, she planted corn and cucumbers ; beets and 

 beans; potatoes and peppers; tomatoes and turnips; squashes and 

 spinach ; and her garden was always ahead of all her neighbors. She 

 kept her beds without a weed, and her walks were as hard as if rolled 

 no weed dared show its tiny head long enough to mar their surface. 

 She was a lady, delicate, refined and lovely, and her flowers and straw- 

 berries fully equaled her vegetables. Will not our fair sisters strive to 

 imitate her example ? 



