MEMORY AND FRIENDSHIP GARDENS 



acquaintance has ripened into friendship ; and how satisfy- 

 ing to think of the friends made through the common love 

 of flowers ! How delightful to contemplate the bond 

 thus wrought with leaf and blossom in friendship's name ! 



We have all of us memories of holidays spent in far 

 corners of our own and other lands, and, in quiet moments, 

 to live them again in sweet imagining, in the flower slips 

 we gathered and coaxed into rooted plants, is one of the 

 many delights of the garden of friendship and memory. 

 Such a garden must grow slowly, for, like friends whose 

 friendship counts, it shall entwine the more closely about 

 our hearts as each flower season passes. Though old 

 friends pass and new ones find us, the flowers they gave 

 us linger on, and always, to the end, are with us. When 

 old age claims them, we give them fresh life, and to the 

 young will still cling the fragrance of the old ones that 

 gave them birth. 



All the plants that are cherished for association's 

 sake should be gathered together, though they will never 

 make any semblance of a show garden. For this reason 

 it is best to shelter them in a little plot enclosed, and, 

 that the boundaries may be in keeping, let the hedges 

 be of Lavender and China Roses. In time the garden of 

 memory and friendship will contain a most interesting 

 collection of plants and flowers, and though the arrange- 

 ment may count for nothing in the eye of an expert, 

 seeing charm only in a border that is planned to an exact 

 colour scheme, the owner, to whom alone this little garden 



