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uch toward making better citizens. They acquire a 
aie ge of the cme operations of nature with its con- 
vincing manifestations of a Supreme Power as wor, nin the ea: aces 
: d : 
of him. Our g: ardening would have been well worth while had 
we but saved aes e boy. 
GARDENING AND THE JOY OF pe 
ability to grow plants and to use them in d 
isa bes igruueaas to eny one. ewes: is de than the 
growing of pl ; » “The garden 
made by one’s own pends is always the best pendent because it is 
a part of ones : ae r gare ’s own is better 
than a good pardon in which one may not di: " “The child 
that plants a seed or cares for the life of an animal, is working 
hand in hand with nature and the Creator... .” “A garden isa 
piece of land where plants and people grow up together and come 
to love each other. 
ARDENING AND BEAUTY 
Corbett writes: ‘Every successful attempt to adorn a city lot, 
a suburban place, or a park has a valuable influence on the com- 
eae : 
namental planting can not be hoarded. It is shared in by every 
