PLOTTING AND PLANNING 75 



And yet, much as we may scorn, on the one hand, the 

 tourist who cannot deviate a hair from his scheduled trip, on 

 the other we deplore the habit of aimless wandering. In 

 gardening, what a grown person is for is not to personally 

 conduct the trip, but, as an expert, to help test the texture 

 of children's plans, and to find out whether the stuff these 

 are made of will stand the strain, or whether it will fray 

 and pull. 



At last, when all the mistakes and all the imperfections 

 have been bravely faced, with high hope everybody looks 

 forward to "next year." And sure enough, another season 

 comes round, opening a beautiful new page on which little 

 men and women may write. 



