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grass. They are by no means the only ones which 

 have been tried. More things have failed in my 

 wild garden than have thriven there. But failures 

 have been due mainly to my own ignorance, which 

 encouraged me to try impossible plants and an 

 impracticable method of growing them. 



Every keen gardener has, doubtless, some main 

 ideal to which other equally valuable intentions 

 are subordinated. One, for instance, likes to have 

 a garden picture ; another, regardless of aesthetic 



EVERYWHERE THERE ARE SPRING BULBS 



effects, is satisfied with a gorgeous show of colour. 

 My own chief aim is neither of these. I want 

 flowers for cutting all the year round. I want 

 them from my garden for seven or eight months 

 of the year, and when I cannot reasonably expect 

 them in the open I want them from my greenhouse. 

 I like to have large quantities of them to live with, 

 and to give to friends. Flowers in the greenhouse 

 thirty yards away give me no pleasure when I am 

 sitting on a cold winter's day in my drawing-room. 

 Flowers in the garden are essential, but in the 



