COTTAGE GARDENS 



garden — the pleasures of personal ownership 

 and achievement. 



Many of the prize-winners were young, but 

 many were gray, and some were even aged, yet 

 all alike would have testified that even for age, 

 and so all the more for youth, artistic flower- 

 gardening is as self -rewarding a form of unselfish 

 work and as promptly rewarding a mode of wait- 

 ing on the future as can easily be found; that 

 there is no more beautifully rewarding way by 

 which youth may 



" Learn to labor and to wait." 



Maybe that is why Adam and Eve were appren- 

 ticed to it so very young. 



It should have been said before that in advance 

 of the award of prizes some very pleasant music 

 and song were given from the platform by a few 

 Smith College girls, and that then the company 

 were shown stereopticon pictures of a number of 

 their own gardens as they looked during the past 

 summer and as they had looked when, a few 

 years ago, — although seemingly but yesterday, 

 — their owners began to plan and to plant. 



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