LITTLE GARDENS 



MAKING READY 



Men are becoming so notoriously addicted 

 to their own society that they miss a good many 

 Improving and pleasant companionships. They 

 are forgetting what soil looks like, in the cities. 

 Think of it! In Manhattan only a hundred 

 homes or so are built in a year, and the number 

 grows less and less, while tenements multiply by 

 thousands. For the millions there is no ground: 

 only asphalt and flagstones; and miles and miles 

 of thoroughfare have not the shade or color re- 

 lief of a tree. Some pathetic show of the primi- 

 tive need and lingering instinct for good green 

 earth is made in the window-box that we may 

 see on the sill of a fourth-floor front, or In a 

 geranium striving out of a tin can on the fifth- 

 floor back. Nay, in summer I can show you 



I 



t3, H. H\LL LIBRARY 



North Carolina State Coiiege 



