What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,-with a hinge in it.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles …