The Garden 

 that We Made 



plants in tiny low-roofed little cottages, flowers prettier by 

 far than in many a large garden, though the window panes 

 were so small that sunshine could not be admitted sufficient 

 for them all, and they certainly had not been reared scienti- 

 fically. But sturdy flowers are to be found in little cottages 

 only where the owners are really fond of flowers. The care 

 of loving hands makes up for what may be lacking in 

 skilful gardening. Were it not for the love they get, the 

 flowers would never live at all in these little cottages ; for 

 watering, tending, tying up of stems, and so on, take 



considerable time. 

 I myself once 

 heard a old woman 

 say — 



" Go and talk 

 a little to the 

 plants. Then they 

 are sure to grow." 

 It may be that 

 children do not 

 always understand 

 flowers. Not, at 

 any rate, in the 

 same way that we 

 grown - up people 

 do. Yet, as time 

 goes on, they learn 



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and her children plant- Dy degrees to appreciate them more and more. 



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i o be sure, most children like to look at flowers, to 

 have them about, and especially to make quaint little 

 nosegays of brilliant, glaringly-contrasting flowers — red and 

 yellow are mostly their favourites — but the tending of their 

 plants is sometimes too much of a task. And one must 

 not expect too much of children. 



A Child's Garden has Great 

 Educational Value. 



Nevertheless every bit of ground that children can 

 call their own, or have a share in, is, in my opinion, of 



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