CHAPTER TEN 



The Garden and Orchard 



IT was Lord Verulam who pointed out that 

 "God Almighty first planted a garden." It is not a 

 matter of record but a safe bet that He no sooner 

 did so than He began to look about and mutter to 

 Himself: 



"Next year I am going to do this differently. 

 . . . Instead of putting man in the Neander valley 

 or on the Pilt down I am going to put him along 

 the Euphrates, there by the apple orchard. . . . 

 And I am going to try a new variety: Neander 

 does not flourish here. . . ." 



That has been the way of all gardeners since 

 creation. For the perfectly satisfactory garden has 

 not yet been planted and grown. Indeed the plain 

 lesson of the Book of Genesis is that it is a task be- 

 yond even infinite power. This year's garden is no 

 sooner started than you begin to plan improve- 

 ments on it next year. 



It is impossible to make two gardens precisely 

 alike. Even in the same soil, side by side and in 

 the same year, they will vary. No matter too how 

 carefully one plans and works his garden it never 



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