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bors, there was enough to give the new border a 

 fair showing and also to turn the nursery into 

 another border. Only a few plants besides the 

 roses had to be purchased; but in the autumn bulb- 

 buying for the new borders began, the planting 

 being in little colonies. 



So the garden grew. The third spring an- 

 other border in the rear of the west lawn, to 

 define it. It was a big one, almost as wide as 

 it was long with a path nearly all the way down 

 the middle; but it was not so big that there were 

 not plants enough to give it a good start in life. 

 Some purchases they could now be made with 

 wisdom more gifts, another crop of seedlings 

 and the natural increase obtained by separation, 

 all helped. And as the garden grew, experience 

 grew. 



The fourth year brought a narrow herbaceous 

 border paralleling the rose border and a very wide 

 one behind the original herbaceous border, while 

 the one that was first the nursery was extended 

 to the other side of the path leading up to the rear 

 door of the house and also along the east edge 

 of it. A new nursery was started at one end of 

 the kitchen garden. Now stock was increasing so 

 rapidly that a great many plants were given away, 

 more going out than coming in. Of those that 

 came in, there was beginning to be a sprinkling 

 of plants of association picked up on travels and 

 sent, or brought, home. And always accumula- 

 tion of experience, 



