192 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



JUNE 



When we walk around our gardens let us 

 neither waste breath in sighing over the ab- 

 sence of the plants we neglected or forgot to 

 provide nor be envious of our more careful and 

 perhaps experienced neighbor. I often think 

 a little disappointment of this sort is the leaven 

 which leaveneth the mass of appreciation of 

 those garden delights which, another time, will 

 be the reward of our forethought. It will be 

 hard to miss the Roses we should have set out, 

 the Columbines we overlooked or the Peonies 

 to which we paid no attention last Fall, but 

 we should take all the more joy in the posses- 

 sion of what we have, learning to love the few 

 things of our own instead of making ourselves 

 miserable over the many things of our neigh- 

 bors. You see Philosophy and Garden-mak- 

 ing are inseparable unless one descends to the 

 state of becoming a planter or a harvester. I 

 suppose there will always be in the world some 

 who find no pleasure in growing things, to 

 whom Nature appears a matter of dirt, bram- 

 bles and potatoes, something to be kept some- 

 where out in the back yard in contradistinction 



