364 THE GARDEN, YOU, AND I 



We have had several Germans and they all had 

 lieber schatz, for jealousy or the scorn of whom 

 they had left home, were for the same reason loath 

 to stay away from it, and at the same time, owing to 

 contending emotions, were unable to work so that 

 they might return. 



Are you not thinking about returning to your indoor 

 bed and board again? With warm weather I fly 

 out of the door as a second nature, but with a smart 

 promise of frost I turn about again and everything 

 furniture, pictures, books, and the dear people them- 

 selves seems refreshingly new and wholly lovable ! 



If you are thinking of making out a book list of 

 your needs as an answer to your mother's or your "in- 

 law's" query, "What do you want for Christmas?" write 

 at the beginning Bailey's Cyclopedia of American 

 Horticulture, in red ink. Lavinia and Martin Cortright 

 gave it to us last Christmas, the clearly printed first 

 edition on substantial paper in four thick volumes, 

 mind you, and it is the referee and court of appeals of 

 the Garden, You, and I in general and myself in 

 particular. Not only will it tell you everything that 

 you wish or ought to know, but do it completely and 

 truthfully. In short it is the perfect antidote to 

 Garden Goozk! 



