THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



that there can be no crossing. Wire nettings 

 hidden by shrubberies from all but the shame- 

 less trespasser you will find far more effective, 

 more promotive to beauty and more courteous. 

 "Don't" make your garden a garden of don'ts. 

 For no garden is quite a garden until it is 

 "Joyous Gard." Let not yours or mine be a 

 garden for display. Then our rhododendrons 

 and like splendors will not be at the front gate, 

 and our grounds be less and less worth seeing the 

 farther into them we go. Nor let yours or mine 

 be a garden of pride. The ways of such a garden 

 are not pleasantness nor its paths peace. And let 

 us not have a garden of tiring care or a user up 

 of precious time. That is not good citizenship. 

 Neither let us have an old-trousers, sun-bonnet, 

 black finger-nails garden — especially if you are a 

 woman. A garden that makes a wife, daughter 

 or sister a dowdy is hardly "Joyous Gard.'* 

 Neither is one which makes itself a mania to her 

 and an affliction to her family. Let us not even 

 have, you or me, a wonder garden — of arboreal 

 or floral curiosities. Perhaps because I have not 

 travelled enough I have never seen a garden of 



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