OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



main, for nothing of all its beauty escapes 

 the eye trained by a little experience, and 

 one enjoys and learns at every step. 

 How jealously one looks at his specimens 

 of the plants that are in one's own gar- 

 den, to see if they are better grown and 

 bear larger flowers than those at home ! 

 And with what immense satisfaction does 

 one spy out those which are not so good. 

 Alas, poor human nature ! must the 

 green-eyed monster invade even the sa- 

 cred precincts of our very gardens? I 

 fear it is even so, and confess that the 

 very first thing I did on reading of a 

 garden where the blossoms on the phloxes 

 measured more than* a silver dollar, was 

 to get a silver dollar and measure one 

 of mine, and it cannot be denied that the 

 result, which is here appended, produced 

 much cheerfulness of heart. 

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