A WOMAN^S HARDY GARDEN 



tiful and to give to your friends. It is a 

 keen delight, when a friend says that she has 

 not raised such and such plants this year, to 

 run and get your trowel and dig a bunch 

 of this and that from the rows of sturdy 

 little plants. It is a pleasure to know that 

 a bit of your garden has gone to help make 

 another's beautiful. 



One of the greatest pleasures of a garden 

 is in giving flowers and plants to your 

 friends. Every October, when arranging the 

 borders and separating plants, I send away 

 great boxes of them, some to fortunate 

 friends with lovely gardens, but without the 

 same varieties ; some to humble cottage gar- 

 dens, and others to friends who have never 

 grown a flower, but would hke to try. This 

 year, having made a large new garden, I was 

 able to give away to friends and neighbors 

 only about seven hundred plants, not seed- 

 lings but large plants and roots. Generally 

 I can send away far more. Think what a 

 delight this is I 



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