out, and how many little corners in our world ONE'S 

 would be less pleasant places to live in! 



We give thanks to the makers of our dear 

 little home gardens, where flowers seem to love 

 to bloom, in a very riot of colors, it may be. 

 The garden spirit is present there, and where 

 the garden spirit is, whether in the perfect 

 lines and plantings of the great gardens of the 

 great artists, or in the little plat of the merely 

 flower loving, there it will incarnate itself in 

 loveliness of plant and flower. 



The garden may be as original and as in- 

 dividual as a poem or a picture, and will be if 

 it expresses the soul of its maker. It will as 

 truly have a life of its own, and a mood of its 

 own. 



Such a garden may not lend itself to imita- 

 tion. Imitation may not be desirable, but it 

 serves its purpose well in expressing the spirit 

 of its maker, and possesses the most essential 

 quality of any work of art in its pure sincerity. 



If one's garden be, as some one has charac- 

 terized the garden of the artist, Miss Cecilia 

 Beaux, "a garden of the heart," it will have 

 a loveliness all its own, although it fail to meet 

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