LITTLE GARDENS 



whereby the spirit shall adventure into new 

 spaces. 



In the country, more than in the city, the 

 garden is a part of the establishment. It may 

 be a dozen of geraniums or petunias, or a few 

 sunflowers, struggling toward the sun, but it has 

 an esthetic meaning in itself, and it relates the 

 house to the landscape. A country garden be- 

 comes a part of the dwelling of the mind — part 

 of that outlook for which we forsake cities, and 

 that opens to us distances and eternities that 

 towns conceal. You will, therefore, cultivate 

 your garden as if you meant to live with it. It 

 will not be the brief and little solace of a city 

 yard. Its trees, bushes and perennials will bloom 

 in your affection; they will be fixtures, like the 

 weathering porches of your house; like your old 

 horse, your playful hens, your pranksome dog, 

 and your fruitful cow. You will learn to watch 

 for the budding of your annuals in the spring; 

 you will have a calendar of the seasons at your 

 windov/. You may even learn to forecast the 

 weather from the conduct of your garden and its 

 animal visitors; for they tell us that pimpernel, 

 or shepherd's weather-glass, opens when sunny 

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