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borders. Their getting may be troublesome; it involves work. 

 But when all is said, it is not love alone that makes the garden- 

 ing world go round, but work. Work is the mainspring of the 

 garden, work of the eye, the mind, the imagination and the 

 hands. And for those who cannot do some type of work in their 

 own gardens I feel profound pity. Young gardeners should dig, 

 hoe, cultivate, plant; for older ones there are the lighter affairs 

 of edging, pruning, cutting, seed-marking, and seed-saving, 

 staking, flower-gathering, tying, hand- weeding; there are a 

 dozen occupations for those who cannot or should not do the 

 heavier part. 



