NEATNESS AND ORDER. 115 



LETTER VII. 



July 7. 



You are now, I suppose, enjoying the fruits 

 of your industry, and your garden is brilliant 

 with flowers. Without meaning to moralize in 

 any great degree, on the subject of labour 

 sweetening pleasure, I think what I have before 

 written and so often told you, now comes con- 

 vincingly on your mind. Until you had yourself 

 reared plants, learned the means of doing so, 

 saw when you failed, and found out the reason 

 why you did so, the pleasure you enjoyed in 

 the mere looking at a flower, when little else 

 than its freshness, its scent, and its beauty, 

 pleased, was very different from that which you 

 now feel in regarding those which you have 

 raised yourself. 



