Excerpt from The Chronicles of a Garden: Its Pets and Its Pleasures Much has been written of late on small farms, and the profits thereof. Reading such works is pleasant and tempting, and sometimes one is inclined to wonder Whether any profit could be made out of a shrubbery and garden of two acres. Thus cogitating one day, it came into my head to endeavour to record the pleasures of which these two acres have been the source; and surely in this world Of care, and toil, and anxiety, what is a daily source of enjoyment may be counted profitable also. 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 technology 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.