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Old Time Gardens 
believe, that a love of Nature and perception of her 
beauties and a knowledge of flowers, are the dower 
of those who are country born and bred ; by which 
is meant reared upon a farm. I have not found this 
true. Farm children have little love for Nature and 
are surprisingly ignorant about wild flowers, save a 
Terraced Garden of the Misses Nichols, Salem, Massachusetts. 
very few varieties. The child who is garden bred 
has a happier start in life, a greater love and knowl- 
edge of Nature. It is a principle of Froebel that 
one must limit a child’s view in order to coordinate 
his perceptions. That is precisely what is done in a 
child’s regard of Nature by his life in a garden; his 
