PART II 



THINGS GREEN AND FAIR 



I A GOOD LOOK ROUND 



WHETHER a garden be large or small, whether it is 

 a town or a country garden, in any case it is sure to be 

 full of interest. 



Somebody once spoke of her little town-garden as 

 " just the size of a pocket-handkerchief " ; which was 

 a modest way of stating the matter. But even the 

 very tiniest scrap of a garden, if well cared-for and 

 lovingly tended, may hold beautiful growths. And if 

 you have no garden at all, there is still something to be 

 done. You may have two or three plants in pots; 

 or, better yet, a wooden window-box full of flowers. 

 The commonest plants, the simplest blooms, are things 

 of wonder and charm. 



We all know something of plant-life. Like the 

 visitors to a new garden, we do at least know that 

 plants grow, and bring forth leaves and flowers; and 

 that when the leaves die, fresh leaves come in their 

 stead; and that, when seeds have been formed, new 

 plants arise in time from some of those seeds. 



But I wonder how many of us have begun to look on 

 plants as living things as not only having life, but 

 having habits and ways of their own. I wonder how 

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