Ill 



WHEN we first began to own a garden we could not 

 bring ourselves to wait in patience for developments. We 

 expected our beds to bloom as by magic. We vehemently 

 ordered pot-plants because no seedlings could be expected 



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to "do anything " in June / 

 and the disproportion between 

 bills and the result filled 

 us with dismay. But a garden 

 is at once the most delightful 

 and cunning of teachers. How 

 kindly are the virtues it incul- 

 cates IPatience, faith, hope, tenderness, gratitude, re- 

 signation, things in themselves as fragrant and beautiful as 

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