THE FUN OF MAKING GARDEN 71 
matter; and so I hung up the receiver. He has 
brought many apples since. My feelings have 
been helped some. They may be healed in time; 
but it takes a good deal to make a true gardener 
get over a slur on his profession. 1 radish, for- 
sooth! But we good men must expect tribula- 
tions in this garden of a world. All Apples help 
some. 
Vhat to do with the weeds has been asked. 
I cannot attempt to answer all frivolous objec- 
tions offered to this Adamic trade we boast of, 
but a word at intervals may be helpful. Weeds 
may be burned or thrown over the fence or left 
growing. The last method is the most immethod- 
ical and unindustrious but scarcely the most 
helpful to the garden. You sweat less by weed- 
ing the garden by absent treatment but the 
vegetables vegetate less. All depends on your 
attitude toward the vegetables. To burn the 
weeds reduces them to an ideal state of incin- 
eration and has a tendency to stifle their taking 
root again that same season. Throwing them 
over the fence stimulates the scattering of the 
seed in your neighbor’s garden and has, of course, 
an altruistic effect in a measure. Your neighbor, 
if he does not get mad and remark, has had a 
needed lesson in self-restraint. But it often 
happens that your neighbor does not have him- 
self under proper control. If he has not, the 
beneficent effect of throwing weeds over the 
fence is somewhat limited. One must judge for 
