Excerpt from Play and Profit in My Garden
This is not a scientific work, as the reader will soon discover. I know that lofty minds will pass it by in silent disdain. I have not tried to make the world wiser. Let the wise do that.
Nor is it a manual, giving in terse, sharp periods, the greatest amount of accurate information in briefest space. My style, I fear, is like my garden, which grows successfully many weeds, while attempting something useful. I never could write a manual any more than I could work steadily in my garden at one thing all day. I always did like to weed near the strawberry-bed or the raspberries, on the same principle. I fear that when a boy (?) I enjoyed sitting near the choir, where I could glance at the pretty singers during the dry passages of the sermon. Do we not need occasional relaxation from the severe duties of life?
In brief, it is my sincere conviction that a garden is good for humanity (see Genesis ii. 8), and it is my wish to diffuse this belief as widely as possible.
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