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will look very pretty under the trees from the 

 garden side of the stream. The foxgloves have 

 come up in thousands, and some of the meadow- 

 sweet and loosestrife also exhibited themselves 

 last summer, so I may hope they will become 

 firmly established. The other things can take 

 care of themselves. Some Spanish irises, how- 

 ever, were dug out and destroyed by water-rats, 

 against which I subsequently waged war with 

 considerable success. 



I suppose in time I shall learn how to make 

 flowers grow in what was and still strives to re- 

 main a wilderness of garlic, nettles, and ivy ; but 

 one's education into a proper understanding of 

 the secret processes of nature is always a matter 

 of time and patience. 



A charming writer who recently made A 

 Journey to Nature says: "You want to know 

 the secret of nature; well, you will have to be- 

 come an obedient part of it, then you will know, 

 but you will lose the power and the desire to tell 

 it." How many, who have communed with na- 

 ture, must have felt this. 



Our education, unfortunately, does not attempt 

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