SENTIMENT 



IN THE GARDEN 



SENTIMENT IN THE GARDEN 



IN MY garden there is a large place for senti- 

 ment. My garden of flowers is also my garden 

 of thoughts and of dreams. The thoughts grow 

 as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as 

 beautiful. 



How could it be otherwise? Are knowledge 

 and skill all that is essential to successful work 

 and real enjoyment in the garden? 



It is true, sentiment may have little or no 

 place in the work of the expert whom you pay 

 in money. It is true, also, that in the scheme of 

 the practical man of affairs who has managed 

 his affairs so well that he can spend large sums 

 in collecting rare plants and producing elab- 

 orate display, sentiment may furnish no mo- 

 tive, may contribute nothing to the pleasure. 

 He may do all that merely because he has cul- 



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