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sundial, a garden heart where those who pass may pause and 

 note the heart-beats and read the message it is wont to offer 

 one. 



And if one is a real garden champion he is sure to be a 

 bird-lover. If song-birds visit us they come to help, and many 

 a troublous insect band is vanquished through their aid. Best of 

 all, they are beautiful, and when the sky is be-clouded and the 

 sundial paints no timely shadows they pause and sing for us 

 and bring back all the cheer. And because we would be kind 

 to them, because we revel in their pretty splashings in the water, 

 we build bird baths for them and perchance a rustic cottage or 

 two, high in the trees so they may live near their mirrored pool 

 and stay and bless the growing garden. And, as we aim always 

 for a vegetable garden beautiful, our bird baths must be sightly, 

 too. 



Still larger pools which reflect sky and clouds and foliage 

 are also appropriate if well placed. We may even plant lilies 

 and other aquatics in them, but tall flowers growing beside them 

 are really just as attractive, for they give happy color to the 

 reflected picture. 



There are other happy features which have their charm, 

 such as seats here and there along the wall, inviting us to rest, 

 or a pergola set up in some seemly place and vine-embowered. 

 Good designs can give much beauty to such things. And, if we 

 would seek use, as well as beauty, from our pergola, we can 

 be sure that there are some varieties of grape vines willing to 

 clamber over it and offer us their fruit. If we have a lattice 

 screen or a trellised wall they will grow there, too. 



The new vegetable garden need not be father's garden alone. 

 The whole family can share in its creation as well as in its 



