What the Garden is like. 
9 
Some people are fond of shirking all the work 
and making a small show cheaply. And these 
perhaps will have got the garden dug and put 
in regular order, and I should not wonder if it 
even were planted for them. For my own part, I 
always liked to do all the work myself, and for 
people who like it also I have described as clearly 
as possible how they should set about it. People 
can generally find some one who will wheel them 
a heavy load, or give the last tug to some tough 
tree that does not choose to stir for all our digging ; 
and for the raking, and forking, and hoeing, and 
weeding, and even the digging mostly, it strikes 
me, the more we do of it the more we enjoy our 
gardens, and the prettier we think our flowers are 
when they come. 
The third concerns the keeping our gardens gay, 
sowing seeds too and raising cuttings for them. 
All this is work varying with the months, so 
for this we will have a kind of monthly Kalendar* 
or list of operations. And as Spring begins in 
March, we will begin then also, and see what we 
have to do. 
