GARDEN -MAKING 



SECTION I 



GENERAL ADVICE 



Every family can have a garden. If there is 

 not a foot of land, there are porches or windows. 

 Wherever there is sunlight, plants may be made 

 to grow ; and one plant in a tin -can may be a 

 more helpful and inspiring garden to some mind 

 than a whole acre of lawn and flowers may be to 

 another. The satisfaction of a garden does not 

 depend upon the area, nor, happily, upon the 

 cost or rarity of the plants. It depends upon the 

 temper of the person. One must first seek to 

 love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that 

 happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. 

 He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbi- 

 trary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particu- 

 larly with the novice. If plants grow and thrive, 

 he should be happy; and if the plants which 

 thrive chance not to be the ones which he planted, 

 they are plants nevertheless, and nature is satis- 

 fied with them. We are apt to covet the things 



