i 4 A GARDEN DIARY 



fully. Assuming him even not to be quite of 

 the right sort a mere harmless fumbler and 

 bungler still 'twere rash to assume that he can 

 teach us nothing. Just as every garden every 

 real garden, owned by its owner provides 

 lessons for other garden owners, so even the 

 written equivalent of such gardens, as long as 

 they are genuine ones, not bits of confectionery 

 tossed up to look pretty on tables, may claim 

 the same praise. So frequently has this of late 

 been brought home to me by experience that, 

 give me only a writer who has faithfully toiled 

 with his own spade, her own trowel, and I am 

 ready to accept a new book at his or her hands 

 every week in the year! 



