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MY GROWING GARDEN 



of Pennsylvania, that can be happily located. I 

 want also the less well-known shrubs, especially 

 of fascinating West China and mysterious Thibet, 

 to show here to visiting Americans what they may 

 additionally have of loveUness in leaf and flower. 

 I want good fruits — I have already supplemented 

 those fine fall-bearing Progressive strawberries 

 with a red raspberry said to come along in company 

 — and new roses that are worth while. 



The vegetable part of the garden I hope to see 

 take cognizance of other things that we ought to 

 like, and to repeat many times the success of the 

 kohlrabi. I hope constantly to improve the tex- 

 ture and the productivity of the soil. I want to 

 some time have really good lawns — for it may have 

 been noticed that I have kept quiet about lawns, 

 for reasons, many reasons — and I dream of grass 

 drives as deep and velvety and wear-resisting as 

 those of my old acquaintance Olcott in Con- 

 necticut. 



And I must not forget my dream of a little 

 well-placed rock-garden, in which may be made at 

 home a host of lovely plants that demand cool 

 roots, and a chance to nestle under the edge of a 

 boulder. There is a place for it, I think; and also a 

 place for just a bit of a water garden, well cir- 

 cumstanced, in which I may see bloom the lovely 



