THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



"That, sor, is the monthly flora! Thim as 

 don't know the but-hanical nayum sometimes 

 calls it the stare jismin, but the but-hanical 

 nayum is the monthly flora.'' 



The inquirer spoke his thanks and passed on, 

 but an eager footfall overtook him, his elbow 

 felt a touch, and the high title came a third 

 time: "The but-hanical nayum is the monthly 

 flora'' 



The querist passed on, warmed by a grateful 

 esteem for one who, though doubtless a skilled 

 and frequent tinkler of the lawn-mower within 

 its just limitations, was no mere dragoon of it, 

 but kept a regard for things higher than the 

 bare sod, things of grace in form, in bloom, in 

 odor, and worthy of "but-hanical nayum." No 

 mere chauffeur he, of the little two-wheeled 

 machine whose cult, throughout the most of 

 our land, has all but exterminated ornamental 

 gardening. 



In New Orleans, where it has not conquered, 

 there is no crowding for room. A ten-story 

 building is called there a sky-scraper. The 

 town has not a dozen in all, and not one of that 



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