120 VARIETY IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 



London into wild Vermont, built himself a brick house, which 

 he willed to one of his heirs in the words: 'This, my house, the 



work of my hands, I will and bequeath to .' 'This, my 



garden, the work of my hands,' means more to us than 'this, 

 my garden, made under my direction,' and much more than 

 'this, my garden, which has cost me much money,' because we 

 become, as it were, partners in growth with the plants which our 

 hands have sowed and transplanted and watered, and we are 

 charmed to have so flourished and flowered through them. 

 Then we live in the changing beauty about us, knowing inti- 

 mately each part of it; and if we so order our leisure that those 

 happy hours are spent in a garden's dear boundaries, tree and 

 flower and sky and scent and song wait upon us and shower us 

 with blessings." 



fugratn wMSr 



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