THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



know that ownership is not all of life nor the 

 better half of it, and it is quite as good for you 

 to give the fact due recognition by gardening 

 early in life as it was for Adam and Eve. 



It is better, for you can do so in a much more 

 fortunate manner, having tools and the first 

 pair's warning example. It is better also be- 

 cause you can do what to them was impossible; 

 you can make gardening a concerted public 

 movement. 



That is what we have made it in Northamp- 

 ton, Massachusetts, whose curving streets and 

 ancient elms you may have heard of as making 

 it very garden-like in its mere layout; many of 

 whose windows, piazzas, and hillside lawns look 

 ofif across the beautiful Connecticut, winding 

 broadly among its farmed meadows and vanish- 

 ing southward through the towering gateway 

 made for or by it millenniums ago between 

 Mounts Tom and Holyoke. 



There Smith College is, as well as that "Peo- 

 ple's Institute" aforementioned, and it is through 

 that institute, one of whose several branches of 

 work is carried on wholly by Smith College stu- 



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