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intervals among them. The cauliflower will find 

 grateful shade under the lines of sweet corn, and the 

 newly-set whiter cabbages, a temporary refuge from 

 the sun, under shelter of the ripened peas. I do not 

 make these suggestions at random, but as the results 

 of actual and successful experience. 



With such simple and orderly arrangement, in- 

 volving no excessive labor, I think every farmer and 

 country-liver may take pleasure in his garden as an 

 object of beauty ; making of it a little farm in 

 miniature, with its coppices of dwarf-trees, its hedge- 

 rows of currants and gooseberries, and its meadows 

 of strawberries and thyme. From the very day on 

 which, in spring, he sees the first, faint, upheaving, 

 tufted lines of green from his Dan-O'Rourkes, to 

 the day when the dangling Limas, and sprawling, 

 bloody tomatoes are smitten by the frost, it offers a 

 field of constant progress, and of successive tri- 

 umphs. Line by line, and company by company, the 

 army of green things take position ; the little flowery 

 banners are flung to the wind ; and lo ! presently 

 every soldier of them all plundering only the earth 

 and the sunshine is loaded with booty. 



The Lesser Fruits. 



FROM the time when I read of Mistress Doctoi 

 Primrose's gooseberry wine, which the Doctoi 

 celebrates in his charming autobiography, I havo 



