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should be noticed or reprimanded, now at length 

 relax and offer themselves to pure enjoyment. 



In different positions they sit or kneel, some on 

 the floor, others on an oak chest, but always with 

 their faces turned towards the singer. Some 

 prefer one song, some another, while all are content 

 to leave to her the choice so long as they may sit 

 like children, quietly listening. Then the windows 

 are flung wide open, for gardeners know that the 

 flowers, too, will want to hear 



" Beautiful garden of roses. 

 Kissed by the morning dew," 



and that next day hollyhocks will have grown 

 taller and bear more buds, and other flowers be 

 brighter in colour for the waves of song that the 

 breeze has carried to them. Those who doubt 

 this should try the experiment for themselves, 

 only they must remember that the waves of sound 

 must be sympathetic ones and bear real love to 

 the flowers. 



And whilst the song continues, those who look 

 into the future see what power could come from 

 all established educational centres if groups of 

 growers and producers were permanently attached 

 to them. A long-cherished hope, which concerns 

 our own work here, seems about to be realised. 



It is, that the Mother College of Glynde should 

 .have living in close proximity to her and settled 

 upon land of their own groups of educated men 

 and women, well trained in market-gardening, 

 poultry- keeping, and similar industries, who, by 



