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find anything as good there, or if I must 
own myself beaten, and it is a proud day 
when I can say I have carried off the honours. 
Farther down, the slope is laid out in neat 
beds of vegetables, and shows the attractive 
greens of lettuces and cabbages, spring onions 
and corn. And here sunflowers and holly- 
hocks flourish, and clumps of golden glow 
enliven the vegetables. This combination 
of the useful and the esthetic is one of its 
charms. I can grow flowers, and my neigh- 
bour can raise vegetables, but the garden 
under the wall has a jumble of both, on per- 
fectly good terms with each other, with no 
sacrifice of either. One corner has a number 
of cold-frames, that bring early violets into 
bloom, and start the vegetables. A cow- 
stable screened off at the lower end explains 
something of the garden’s fertility, for as 
a coloured gardener remarked this spring, 
‘“‘There ain’t nothing what won’t grow in 
cow manure.”’ 
Altogether this garden has been an edu- 
cation and an inspiration, and has shown 
