A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



thus flows throughout the bitterest and dullest 

 months. 



What thoughtful, what unaginative mind can 

 fail to see in the present great movement toward 

 thrift a powerful accompanying movement toward 

 beauty ? Is it possible that the American will con- 

 tent himself with vegetable growing? With our 

 temperament we shall make vegetables into step- 

 ping-stones to higher things. Man must have 

 beauty; and of all the sources from which the 

 highest beauty may — will — flow, there is none 

 to surpass the great Arboretum at Boston. 



And where else can be found such true happiness 

 in learning.? Not in stuffy theatre or concert- 

 room; not in walled-in museums of inanimate, of 

 dead things; but here, under the sky, with things 

 that bud and bloom, things in which one feels the 

 constant beat of life; here where living objects 

 make living pictures; where color varies with 

 each hour; where composition is freshly fine at 

 every turn of drive or path; here is, indeed, the 

 Baconian purest of earthly pleasures. There is 

 in America nothing more sound, more necessary, 

 more beautiful than this museum of plants. 



People predicted, after the war, a new heaven 

 and a new earth. As to the new heaven, who can 



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