The Gift of a Garden 
( Continued from page 363) 
the ground and replanting with its suc¬ 
ceeding crop. Unquestionably, the Prac¬ 
tical Garden would cost in upkeep just 
about four times what the Poet’s Garden 
would cost. 
For the Poet’s Garden needs only lawn 
mowing and the care and cutting of its 
roses. Uncle Elijah guessed shrewdly 
that Harriet would get to tending her 
roses herself; the twice-a-week spraying 
which all rcres require would not make 
very great demands upon her time, ac¬ 
cording to the garden rules and schedule 
which he proposed to furnish them, at the 
proper season. And no one could have 
roses growing right under their nose and 
eyes, as these would be, without getting so 
interested in them that they would want 
to tend and cut them. One day’s help a 
week at the outside, then, for the Poet’s 
Garden, as against probably four—he 
wanted to make it three, but felt it risky— 
for the Practical Garden. Would it be 
worth while ? 
This brought up the second considera¬ 
tion ; how much in actual cash value would 
the Practical Garden yield? If it would 
be enough to pay for the help, then the ad¬ 
vantage lay here, undoubtedly; for, in ad¬ 
dition to having the best grade of veg¬ 
etables in the best condition, they would 
have their grounds all in order at no cost. 
If it were anything less than enough to 
pay for three full days of the help, then 
the advantage would lie with the Poet’s 
Garden. 
This brought him into a long and com¬ 
plicated mess of calculation — and he came 
near giving up without seeing the thing 
through. But that was not his way, 
either; so he stuck it out. Yet, of course, 
he could not calculate the rains and the 
droughts and the pests and the unfore¬ 
seen losses; these had to be lumped off to¬ 
gether as a sort of percentage, from all 
the gains on the Practical Garden’s side of 
the sheet. And so, to save him — as he 
himself tells it—he couldn’t get his figures 
to show the favor that he wanted them to 
show — that he had set down fully expect¬ 
ing, and probably intending, if the truth 
were to be told, they should show — to the 
Practical Garden. 
“There is no efficiency whatsoever,” he 
wrote his nephew at last, “in raising veg¬ 
etables with the expense of a gardener, un¬ 
less you raise all your vegetables — and 
have your gardener all the time. More¬ 
over, a day’s neglect may mean loss that 
will eat into what seems on paper to be 
the saving over the one-day-a-week re¬ 
quirements' of the wholly picturesque and 
pleasure garden. Therefore, I have cast 
my vote for the Poet’s Garden — much to 
my own surprise, I may as well confess! 
I believed in the other sort of thing until 
I figured it out on paper; (and, right here 
let me say that figured out on paper it is a 
most valuable proposition — if you do your 
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