i 5 4 THE GARDEN, YOU, AND I 



wanger's little treatise on The Rose, a competent 

 chronology of the flower queen up to 1901, written con- 

 cisely and from the American standpoint. If I should 

 send them now, you would be so bewildered by the 

 enumeration of varieties, many unsuited to this climate, 

 intoxicated by the descriptions of Rose-garden possi- 

 bilities, and carried away by the literary and horticul- 

 tural enthusiasm of the one-time master of the Deanery 

 Garden, Rochester, that, like the child turned loose 

 in the toy shop, you would lose the power of choosing. 



Lavinia Cortright lost nearly a year in beginning her 

 rosary, owing to a similar condition of mind, and 

 Evan and I long ago decided that when we read we 

 cannot work, and vice versa, so when the Garden of 

 Outdoors is abed and asleep each year, we enter the 

 Garden of Books with fresh delight. 



Have you a man with quick wit and a straight eye to 

 be the spade hand during the Garden Vacation ? If not, 

 make haste to find him, for, as you have had Barney for 

 five years, he is probably too set in his ways to work 

 at innovations cheerfully ! 



