"Having wages bigger than their bodily wants, and having spiritual wants 

 numerous and elastic enough to use up the surplus." 



The owner of this cottage, who stands on the lawn, spaded and graded it and grassed it 

 herself, and by shrubbery plantings about the house's foundation and on the outer 

 boundaries of the grass has so transformed it since this picture was taken as to win one 

 of the highest prizes awarded among more than a thousand competitors. 



" One such competing garden was so beautiful last year that strangers driving 

 by stopped and asked leave to dismount and enjoy a nearer view." 



A capital prize-winner's back yard which was a sand bank when he entered the competition. 

 His front yard is still handsomer. 



