BY WAY OF POSTSCRIPT 



A CHAPTER OF AFTERTHOUGHTS WHICH THE 

 READER CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS 



HINK things out for your- 

 self. Do not try to copy 

 anybody else's garden, as 

 so many attempt to do. 

 Be original. What you 

 see on your neighbor's home 

 grounds may suggest some- 

 your own grounds, but 

 the idea suggested. He 



thing similar for 

 be content with 

 may not have a patent on his own working- 

 out of the idea — ^indeed, the idea may not have 

 been one of his originating — ^but the manner in 

 which he has expressed it is his own and you 

 should respect his right to it. Imitation of what 

 others have done, or are doing, is likely to spoil 

 everything. If the best you can do is to copy 

 your neighbor's work servilely in all its details, 

 turn your attention to something else. If all 

 the flower-gardens in the neighborhood were 

 simply duplicates of each other in material and 

 arrangement, the uniformity of them would be 



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