6 GARDENING BY MYSELF. 



gates, making himself comfortable by the 

 lodge fire. But there are fair views to be 

 had from thence, and good reading is plen- 

 ty, and abundant materials for consideration 

 and study ; and there is work enough to do, 

 if that's all, and if you know how to do it. 

 Oh ! but it is pleasant to escape into Fairy- 

 land from the e very-day cares and labours 

 and dust, and to study the wonders God is 

 preparing, and to think of the underground 

 work in progress, and to use our own glad 

 hands as agents. If they are glad and will- 

 ing — that is enough; the skill will come. 

 And to help and encourage a wee bit, and 

 to advise just a little, I think I must tell 

 what Fairyland is to me. 



I should say, to begin, that I do not mean 

 by this the enchanted regions of professed 

 gardeners, — neither of those people who 

 are blessed with that very useful, trouble- 

 some, self-willed appendage to a flower gar- 

 den. My Fairyland does not spring up 

 under glass, nor out of money, nor with 

 " facilities." For people having all these 



