^^^I did. You can't be successful in your 



garden unless you really have had the ^» 

 doubtful pleasure and experience of making 

 mistakes, and you can't be successful in your 

 garden if you do not tend your flowers, if you 

 do not love them, and our gardens cannot be 

 successful without these attentions, and no gar- 

 den can possibly have any individuality when 

 left to the entire care of the gardeners. Some- 

 one has said that "Individualism rests on the 

 principle that a man shall be his own master." 

 I can think of no better way of expressing indi- 

 vidualism, except perhaps to make it read "Indi- 

 vidualism rests on the principle that a woman shall 

 ^ be her own master." And if there is one place 

 ^ where it is particularly desirable to be master, 

 m it is in our gardens. Don't permit your gardener to 

 ^ tell you — you tell him! And if there is one place 

 m where individualism is particularly apparent, it is 

 M in our gardens. Let them be part of you; not a re- 

 M flection of someone else. Don't let them suggest 

 IS that the only part you had in their making was 

 m SL monetary one. 



m How happy we amateur gardeners should be, 

 H for gardening gives us such a beautiful interest in 

 ^ life, an interest that need never flag:. Each vear 



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