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only are left to mark a spot where a garden
ought to have been. And if we had walked
in front of the house where persons not
possessing flower gardens usually contrive
to make a rose bush or an evergreen
contribute to the Home Interest of the
place, we might have found the veritable
rose bush, but deprived of its branches
& tenderest shoots by a botanizing colt,
whose tastes for rose buds is only comparable
to the tastes of said sheep for
the evergreens. Altogether from what we
could learn within doors, there appears
to be much need of the teachings of this
society outside of this house, a garden
must be made and protected from the
ravages of the beasts & fowls, & the door
yard must be improved in some way.

1st. quest. Is it proper to cover a pit at night
now? Yes.
2 Does the evaporation of water on a stove in