CHAPTER XIII 
The Work of a Children’s 
Garden Club 
I am ever being taught new lessons in my gar- 
den : patience and industry by my friends the birds, 
humility by the great trees that will long outlive 
me, and vigilance by the little flowers that need my 
constant care. 
—Rosaline Neish. 
Dip you ever see the boy or girl that did not want 
to get up a club? I never did; and the reason is 
that people, young and old, like to both work and 
play together. Now a garden club is really worth 
while, and although I might simply TELL you 
how to proceed after getting your friends to meet 
and agree on the purpose, you probably will get 
a much clearer idea if I relate what a certain 
group of little folks actually did accomplish. 
Fifteen boys and girls living in old Greenwich 
Village,—today one of the poor, crowded sections 
of New York City, where even the streets are dark- 
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