MY GARDEN ACCOUNTED FOR. 35 



dition are growing more luscious and abundant 

 every year. I had now the nucleus of a garden, 

 and my children could form the associations and 

 acquire the tastes that I had found so pleasant 

 and useful. A sand heap is the place where 

 they are first initiated into its mysteries. Here 

 they plant about everything they can lay their 

 hands on, and often half bury themselves. In- 

 numerable egg-shells have been carefully cov- 

 ered up, in the delusive hope that little chickens 

 would sprout. But have not experienced gar- 

 deners sown many high-priced seeds as vainly ? 

 Still the credulous little planters are coming on, 

 and this summer the eldest shall have a flower- 

 bed all to herself, with real geraniums and pan- 

 sies in it, and the very thought will make her 

 eyes sparkle at any time. 



I joy to see this budding taste in them and every 

 one, for I believe that the,love of the garden here 

 helps prepare us to be with Him in Paradise. 



