Her spirit was broad and altruistic, and she saw the garden, not as 
a mere personal possession, shut in with narrow enclosing walls, but as 
a source of mutual interest in a community, an opportunity to de- 
velop in her neighbors of every degree the true neighborhood feeling 
of sharing together in one common happiness. 
Under the name of Neltje Blanchan, Mrs. Double day wrote 
numerous books on Botany and Horticulture, as well as Ornithology 
and Nature Study. She also inspired many of the articles on practical 
gardening in Country Life in America, of which the firm founded by 
Mr. Doubleday is the publisher. 
She will, perhaps, be best remembered by her "Nature's Garden" 
and her "Bird Neighbors," books that have given to many their first 
impulse to study our native wild flowers and our native birds. 
Since the beginning of the war Mrs. Doubleday has been actively 
engaged in reHef work, and at the time of her death she was traveling 
with her husband in the interests of the Red Cross. 
A. D. Weekes. 
North Country Garden Club of Long Island. 
The Little Gardener's Alphabet 
of Proverbs 
Autumn-sown annuals flower soonest and strongest. 
What you sow in the spring, sow often and thin. 
Bulbs bought early are best chosen. 
If you wish your tulips to wake up gay, 
They must all be in bed by Lord Mayor's Day. 
"Cut my leaves this year, and you won't cut my flowers next year," 
said the Daffodil to Tabitha Tidy. 
Cut a rose for your neighbor, and it will tell two buds to blossom for you. 
Don't let me forget to pray for travelers when I thank Heaven I'm 
content to stay in my own garden. It is furnished from the ends of 
the earth. 
Enough comes out of anybody's old garden in autumn, to stock a 
new one for somebody else. But you want sympathy on one side 
and sense on the other, and they are rarer than most perennials. 
Flowers are like gentlemen — "Best everywhere." 
Give Mother Earth plenty of food, and she'll give you plenty of 
flowers. 
He who can keep what he gets and multiply what he has got, should 
always buy the best kinds; and he who can do neither should buy 
none. 
