I 
HOEVER has a garden has a peren- 
W nial source of interest, whether the 
garden itself be large or small. Indeed, 
though the large garden has wide spaces 
and beautiful vistas, the owner of the small 
one has the pleasure of being personally 
acquainted with every plant and shrub in 
it. And if the owner be a woman, the 
small garden gives her perhaps the more 
pleasure because she can work in it, spade, 
plant, and prune it herself, and know 
that the result is all the work of her own 
hands. 
My little garden seems wonderfully inter- 
esting because I have done everything for it. 
I can see it as it was—a clay waste, generally 
muddy and hopeless-looking. It lies be- 
hind a half-timbered cottage, and is enclosed 
by a high wall, so that from the first it had 
the advantage of privacy. I was told when 
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