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and Spring invariably lags and appears reludtant 

 to greet us. How impatient I am, and I know you 

 are, to return to our roses! We want to go back 

 to our gardens. Soon we will, sanguine with the 

 expe(5tation of finding all our treasures happily 

 and faithfully awaiting us, comforted with the 

 knowledge that we have provided for their com- 

 II fort the needed winter protection and that June 

 will hold pleasant surprises for us, with new roses. 

 Will it not seem almost like looking into the very 

 bottom of the cornucopia of Flora? Do you know 

 I of anything more absorbing, more ennobling or 



I more refreshing than a garden? 



^ I will never admit that Gardening has any draw- 

 backs, it has only the greatest power for good. I 

 have heard it said, every seed is an education, every 



II plant, every leaf, every bud, every blossom is an 

 apo^le of nature. 



^ We live in a world in which flowers are more 

 beautiful and more numerous than ever before 

 adorning our stay here and gradually broadening 

 the acreage of happiness and of beautiful life. How 

 true this is. Can there be any one who does 



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