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bors, there was enough to give the new border a 
fair showing and also to turn the nursery into 
another border. Only a few plants besides the 
roses had to be purchased; but in the autumn bulb- 
buying for the new borders began, the planting 
being in little colonies. 
So the garden grew. The third spring an- 
other border—in the rear of the west lawn, to 
define it. It was a big one, almost as wide as 
it was long—with a path nearly all the way down 
the middle; but it was not so big that there were 
not plants enough to give it a good start in life. 
Some purchases—they could now be made with 
wisdom—more gifts, another crop of seedlings 
and the natural increase obtained by separation, 
all helped. And as the garden grew, experience 
grew. 
The fourth year brought a narrow herbaceous 
border paralleling the rose border and a very wide 
one behind the original herbaceous border, while 
the one that was first the nursery was extended 
to the other side of the path leading up to the rear 
door of the house and also along the east edge 
of it. A new nursery was started at one end of 
the kitchen garden. Now stock was increasing so 
rapidly that a great many plants were given away, 
more going out than coming in. Of those that 
came in, there was beginning to be a sprinkling 
of plants of association—picked up on travels and 
sent, or brought, home. And always accumula- 
tion of experience, 
