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garden, all faded flowers should be cut away, 

 the soil kept stirred and powdered, so that the 

 plants that follow in the train of earlier 

 bloomers should at least have equal rights, 

 which they cannot have if faded flower stalks 

 remain to steal their sunshine, to crowd them 

 and detract from their fresh loveliness. I do 

 not think this is asking too much of us. Do 

 you? I know you will agree with me, if you 

 believe as I do, that 



"You are nearer to God in a garden than 

 anywhere else on earth." 



When I heard Sir Arthur Pearson quote 

 those lines I thought, "oh, how true they are!" 

 In St. Dunstan's work for the blind, what it is 

 doing and what it is going to do for these 

 brave men "who will have eyes everywhere, 

 not only two eyes but many eyes," gardens 

 and gardening play a very large and import- 

 ant part, and I am not surprised. 



These blind heroes will discover many 

 hitherto unknown friends in their gardens of 



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