12 MY GROWING GARDEN 



years of neglect, may be disregarded. The scanty 

 pocket-book that had to stand for the prospects 

 ahead cannot be disregarded; it is to be care- 

 fully conserved, so that it may answer imperative 

 demands for garden necessities. There is a hope 

 that the things we may grow to eat on this land 

 will make possible an occasional transfer from the 

 household account to the garden budget. 



Lest I forget, the shape of the place must be 

 here set down: it is almost exactly a quarter-circle 

 of a radius of four hundred feet. In my joy I call 

 it my Breeze Hill piece of pie! And it slopes 

 gently toward the south and east and west from 

 the noble clump of Norway spruces that hold oflE 

 much of the fierceness of winter's storms. 



The place and a little of the prospect are before 

 us, to work out in the months of the years that 

 God gives us. 



