JULY 



Celia Thaxter's Garden. 



"Why is a garden made ? " Primarily, it would seem to grat- 

 ify man's craving for beauty. Behind fine gardening is 

 fine desire. It is a plain fact that men do not make 

 beautiful things merely for the sake of something to do, 

 but rather because their souls compel them. Any beauti- 

 ful work of art is a feat, an essay, of human soul. Some- 

 one has said that " noble dreams are great realities "- 

 this in praise of unrealized dreams; but here, in the fine 

 garden, is the noble dream and the great reality. 



JOHN D. SEDDING. 



