Excerpt from My New Zealand Garden I have hesitation in making the avowal that I am blest with the craze for gardening - that solid, real, satisfactory occupation pointed out to us from the very first - and having worked like a Spartan at my parcel of ground for nearly twenty years, reducing spades, wheelbarrows, and such-like lady-sized gardening paraphernalia to atoms, I am tempted to recount some of the freaks of the plants, myself, and others, especially on this nurtured and revered spot of bad subsoil-* worse than the rulings o' the Creation, ' as Sir Walter Scott's gardener has it. To dress and keep our gardens is undoubtedly a Divine injunction t to be neglected, and it behoves us, in gratitude to the Creator, to keep our plots in order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.