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ing example of perseverance in Garden-making : 

 "A man fond of Gardening and a good Garden 

 started one last Spring. It did well till one day 

 the locusts swarmed over it and the Garden was 

 devoured. Nothing daunted, the man started again, 

 and the Garden soon looked well, and with pride 

 he cut his first Cucumber. Then hail fell for three- 

 quarters of an hour and there was no Garden left ! 

 Undaunted, again he started and again everything 

 flourished, when tremendously heavy rain fell (really 

 a sort of waterspout) and caused a flood and the 

 Garden left for Delagoa Bay ! All he has in that 

 Garden now is a crop of mealies, which are not his, 

 for they were washed down by the same flood from 

 a Garden higher up ! 



" But he will never own himself defeated, and is 

 making another Garden." 



Such men are the Garden-makers of the world, 

 and would succeed at any cost. The beautiful idea 

 of planting, in toil and trouble, for others' gain is so 

 often to be seen in the Gardens of the East. Trees, 

 flowers, and vegetables are all planted, tended, and 

 cared for by some man who will never reap the 

 benefit, but leaves his work as a legacy from one 

 unknown Englishman to another. 



Cottage Gardens have some special features in 

 every county. Down in Worcestershire there is 

 hardly one, even the very smallest, that has not 

 a little orchard of Apple trees, laden with snowy 



