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also in the orchard and field. Give her help when 

 she asks for it, and make no masculine remarks. 

 Some years you will find forget-me-nots and mi- 

 gnonette ; other years petunias and stocks. 



I have never seen a real Nature lover who did not 

 change likes and tastes. I have had my dahlia spells 

 and my aster years, and just now am delighting in 

 phloxes and hollyhocks the nasturtium alone has 

 remained a perennial delight. 



I am sure that I hear you say, Where now is this 

 garden that we are to make? So far as we can see 

 you have turned our whole property into one great 

 floral, vegetable, and small-fruit park. Is that your 

 notion of a country place ? You have hit it exactly. 

 Every corner and nook of a country home should 

 bloom with something and bear something. My 

 new neighbor just over the fence asked me if I 

 objected to his cutting the tendrils of a huge grape- 

 vine that, climbing forty feet high on a wild cherry 

 tree, hung down in great loops and tangles over his 

 way as well as mine. 



I told him he could do as he pleased, but I would 

 advise him to wait until the middle of May. With 

 May every line and loop was alive with flowers, and 

 the fragrance went in waves over his lawn and into 

 his house. He said, " I would not cut it for one 

 hundred dollars." One must, however, consider his 

 neighbors in planting, for if trees reach over they 

 may cause a quarrel; somehow the more acres some 



