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 yegetable 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 ; ajid 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 ? 



