isii flow?:r-fif,' 



t o Nature. Gardening touches well-springs of being 

 and helps materially towards the moral advance 

 Tient of a race. It is affected by the same funda 

 uental "psychic" influence as is painting, ov 

 inde< )f our kindred enthu^ 



le for line, as to 

 consider ourselves s. 



, :, _ h above, Nature — whij 



we think we feel, perhaps see, and almost certainly 



7^^%e ^WILLOW GENTIAN (G. asclcpiadea) 

 tnat we ^i-and the Alpine Cotton Grass (Eriophoruui 



seemingly Sf/' endizcn). 



we will, Nature, and nothmg but Nature, has found 

 exprc ' ' ^'-^^ '"^ ' • ^^ quite as mad an ambitio? 

 as a ' lead us to suppose 



Indeed, it is good ctually great; for it i> 



I- ' t of the iviany ounches of carrots dang- 



i at of tlie human animal's nose, inducing 



him to keep " pegging away." 



Independent and original as we may co» ■ 

 ourselves, we yet from time to time have tc 

 and take our cue from Nature. She, afte 

 *ce at which we must ref' 



