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in front of the humble Cabbage or Potato 

 below the north hedge here. They also enable 

 one to give one's friends pleasure ; for their 

 growth is so prodigious that they must be 

 divided every second year at least, or the 

 clumps would grow too big. And thus they 

 afford us an excellent opportunity of practising 

 the Chester Sunday-school child's definition of 

 Charity " giving to your neighbour what you 

 don't want yourself." 



But let us use Michaelmas Daisies as Nature 

 uses them ; grouped with other plants which 

 enhance their beauty with plants, too, which 

 flower before they come into bloom. For 

 nothing is more dismal than a " collection" of 

 Michaelmas Daisies, such as I once saw in 

 a garden that rather piques itself on being 

 the last word of what should be. A choice 

 collection they certainly were. Yet, planted 

 without any relief in two wide borders on 

 either side of a rather narrow path, their 

 effect before they were fully out was so 

 utterly depressing and really ugly, that I 

 nearly vowed on the spot never to look at 



