4 THE GOLD MINE 



greens and deciduous trees gathered from different 

 parts of the earth. Everywhere there are things of 

 beauty. ''No wonder the children dread to leave home 

 and rejoice when they can get back again. 



Take it all around, and no investment will pay bet- 

 ter than your gold mine in your front yard. ^'Well/' 

 says one, ^'I don't know how to work it. I don't know 

 anything about horticulture." We thought perhapis 

 that was the case, and so this book is written in the 

 hope that it will develop the immense amount of w^ealth 

 and beauty now idle, or existing only in thought. 



Let us outline this matter. We visit a fine estate 

 in Massachusetts. There is a marvelous group of trees 

 dressed in silver and sapphire. Their sheen is like soft 

 moonlight lingering among the branches. Offer the 

 man $100 apiece for them. He would not take twice 

 that. You buy those same trees of silvery hue for 

 $2.00 each; then see them grow^ They will do as well 

 in Minnesota as in Massachusetts. Each little tree 

 will be ambitious to work out that $100 for you; and 

 it will be worth as much to you and your family as to 

 any one. 



A little boy once planted a quarter, and a few days 

 after dug it up to see if it had sprouted. Another 

 little fellow who loved his grandma dearly moved with 

 his parents to a far Western home. He was terribly 

 homesick. How he did long for the kind arms and the 

 dear old face ! One day his mother found him planting 

 a photograph in the garden. It was the picture of 

 the dear old lady. He burst into tears and said: "I 



