Read the following poem given below and answer the question.

A GIRL'S GARDEN

A NEIGHBOUR of mine in the village
likes to tell how one spring
When she was a girl on the farm, she did
A childlike thing.

One day she asked her father
To give her a garden plot
To plant and tend and reap herself,
And he said, "Why not?"

In casting about for a corner
He thought of an idle bit
Or walled-off ground where a shop had stood,
And he said, "Just it."

And he said, "That ought to make you
An ideal one-girl farm,
And give you a chance to put some strength
On your slim-jim arm".

It was not enough of a garden,
Her father said, to plough;
So she had to work it all by hand,
But she don't mind now.

She wheeled the dung in the wheelbarrow
Along a stretch of road;
But she always ran away and left
Her not-nice load,

And hid from anyone passing.
And then she begged the seed.
She says she thinks she planted one
Of all things but weed.

A hill each of potatoes,
Radishes, lettuce, peas,
Tomatoes, beets, beans, pumpkins, corn.
And even fruit trees.

And yes, she was long mistrusted
That a cider apple tree
In bearing there today is hers,
Or at least may be.

Her crop was a miscellany
When all was said and done,
A little bit of everything,
A great deal of none.

Find the synonym from the poem which means "useless".

idle

The word idle means "inactive" or "unproductive." In the context of the poem, it suggests that both paths ultimately led to the same destination, and therefore, neither path was truly useful.

The other three options are not as appropriate synonyms for "useless":

• Tend means "to care for or look after."
• Slim means "thin" or "slender."
• Cider is a type of alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples.

Therefore, the best synonym for "useless" in the poem is idle.