The Rescue of an Old Place 



Gardening Youth hates to wait for anything, and 

 wishes to realize its dreams so soon as 

 they are conceived ; but as we advance in 

 years we take a sober satisfaction in wait- 

 ing a little for our pleasures, and also we 

 like something that can recur, and that is 

 interminable. Most other delights once 

 experienced are exhausted, but gardening 

 grows by what it feeds on. It is the same, 

 and yet never the same ; it can be forever 

 renewed ; it can be indefinitely extended ; 

 it is within the reach of all dwellers in the 

 country, where home amusements are most 

 needed. It can be compassed by the 

 slenderest purse, and it will give a man a 

 chance to spend a fortune if he so desire. 

 It has its agreeable economies, and its fas- 

 cinating extravagances. It can be made 

 to satisfy the most orderly dispositions, 

 and also return beauty and grace from 

 careless and wild arrangements. It can 

 be utilitarian and lucrative, it can be 

 merely aesthetic and ornamental, or all 

 four, just as the fancy takes you. In fact 

 it may be briefly characterized as happi- 

 ness for the million, with no patent on it. 

 Added to all these charms is its whole- 

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