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that day with laurels of the great. "Thus noble thought 

 to noble deed is wrought." Doubt it not that many a de- 

 lightful thought will come to those who work or linger amid 

 the flowers those fairest of all God's works. It is not 

 without foundation that we have faith in the eternal truth of 

 the words by an old writer, "Who loves a garden still his 

 Eden keeps." And there is nothing that will so long pre- 

 serve le cceur en fete as the indulgence of a pure deep passion 

 for the garden, and for all that is beautiful in Nature. 



E. V. B. 



HUNTERCOMB MANOR, 



March 2, 1901. 



