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horizon to horizon, they are borne thither over sea, over 

 mountain, to shake their silver upon the flowers and trees 

 of other lands ! 



" Listen to the garden talking while it rains," 



bids the poet, singing of an April shower ; and one may now 

 behold the activity which these gentle showers call forth to 

 those who take delight in the " true pleasure of a garden." 

 A few from the many garden-thoughts, culled from past and 

 present literature, I append below, whose recordance, per- 

 chance, will give as great a pleasure to the reader as they 

 gave to their several writers : 



" Who will follow the calling of Adam worthily shall 

 begin by loving flowers as a scholar loves books : not for 

 glory of having a great collection, still less for an unin- 

 telligent and semi-commercial pride in what is rare and 

 expensive; but for themselves, their fragrance, their beauty, 

 their foliage, or for the many curious reproductive and other 

 gifts given them by Nature." P. ANDERSON GRAHAM. 



"The principal value of a private garden is not under- 

 stood. It is not to give the possessor vegetables and fruit, 

 but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher 

 virtues hope deferred and expectations blighted, leading to 

 resignation and sometimes to attenuation. The garden thus 

 becomes a moral agent, a test of character, as it was in the 

 beginning." CHAS. D. WARNER. 



4 'So long as a garden is only regarded as a means for dis- 

 playing masses of gay colouring, half the delight and all the 

 real interest of it are gone. It is only when we learn to make 



