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ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN 



As spring comes on, the fancy of any man 

 who cares about a garden, " lightly turns to 

 thoughts" of flowers and the gardens where 

 they grow. Never, perhaps, was the art of 

 gardening so popular, I wish we could say 

 so intelligent, as at present. The stately homes 

 of England, the villas that line the roads of 

 suburban districts, the cottages clustering round 

 a village green, often even a back yard or 

 window-sill in the heart of some manufacturing 

 town, all testify in their different ways to the 

 desire of having an adornment of flowers. 

 Indeed this desire, as Bacon long ago pointed 



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