PLOTTING AND PLANNING 
75 
And yet, much as we may scorn, on the one hand, the 
tourist who cannot deviate a hair from his scheduled trip, on 
the other we deplore the habit of aimless wandering. In 
gardening, what a grown person is for is not to personally 
conduct the trip, but, as an expert, to help test the texture 
of children’s plans, and to find out whether the stuff these 
are made of will stand the strain, or whether it will fray 
and pull. 
At last, when all the mistakes and all the imperfections 
have been bravely faced, with high hope everybody looks 
forward to " next year.” And sure enough, another season 
comes round, opening a beautiful new page on which little 
men and women may write. 
