DAYS IN MY GARDEN 



run wild races, their stiff and clumsy legs too large 

 for such gay frolics ; but youth comes only once for 

 them but one short, quickly passing spring. 



SEEDS 



OUTDOOR gardening is impossible when the thaw 

 has come after frost, for the soil is a sticky mass, the 

 air is unpleasantly raw and we can only 

 garden in anticipation. So, great is the 

 pleasure when we take the recently 

 received stack of nurserymen's lists 

 and, perusing them, mentally order our 

 new plants and seeds. Then it is that many 

 things grow and flourish by the fireside, perhaps 

 because they are warm and free from blight, for there 

 is no insecticide like nicotine ! 



It is a long list of seeds that we intend to grow 

 this season and the time for planting is almost upon 

 us. The time of seed planting ! the miracle when 

 we are able 



To watch the matchless working of a power 

 Which shuts within its seed the future flower. 



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