BEAUTIFUL GARDENS 

 IN AMERICA 



A world without flowers ! What would it be ? Among 

 those who know, such a question needs no answer and 

 we are not seeking a reply from the uninitiated who, for 

 lack of understanding and sympathy, can but gaze at us 

 with wondering pity, when our gardens cause us to over- 

 look so much that to them means life. But is there any 

 life more real than the life in the garden for those who 

 actually take part in its creation and nurture it carefully 

 week by week and year by year? If, owing to this ab- 

 sorbing occupation, we fail to give a full share of our- 

 selves to some of the social avocations of the busy world 

 are we to be pitied for getting "back to the soil" to which 

 we belong? Man was put by the Creator "in the Garden 

 of Eden to dress it and to keep it," and even after his 

 forced departure therefrom he was bidden to "till the 

 ground," and the reward seems great to us who know the 

 meaning of the signs and wonders continually being re- 

 vealed in the garden world. 



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