THE GARDEN AT HOME 



CHAPTER I 



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GARDEN MAGIC 



Gardening, like golf, is a dull business to the looker-on, but 

 reveals a little heaven on earth to the worker. 



THOSE who scoff at gardening, or affect an indifference to 

 flower growing, are deserving of sympathy ; they do 

 themselves an injustice, and speak of what they do not 

 know. It is a common experience that only they who 

 have a garden of their own are able to appreciate its 

 charm, and invariably their appreciation increases as 

 each flower season passes. Once the gardener becomes 

 imbued with a love for plants and flowers, he finds that 

 the discovery of one secret, the solving of one problem, 

 satisfying though it may be, but opens up the way to 

 many more. And so there arises an interest that is 

 stimulated and sustained, now by failure, now by success, 

 again by hope deferred, or by ideals realised. The 

 strangers without the garden gates, those who have 

 never solved one gardening problem, never pulled one 

 weed, have no conception of the joy that follows in the 

 train of even a Geranium well grown. 



