The Garden 
that We Made 
plants in tiny low-roofed little cottages, flowers prettier by 
lar than in many a large garden, though the window panes 
were so small that sunshine could not be admitted sufficient 
for them all, and they certainly had not been reared scienti- 
fically. But sturdy flowers are to be found in little cottages 
only where the owners are really fond of flowers. The care 
of loving hands makes up for what may be lacking in 
skilful gardening. Were it not for the love they get, the 
flowers would never live at all in these little cottages ; for 
watering, tending, tying up of stems, and so on, take 
considerable time. 
I myself once 
heard a old woman 
say — 
“ Go and talk 
a little to the 
plants. Then they 
are sure to grow.” 
It may be that 
children do not 
always understand 
flowers. Not, at 
any rate, in the 
same way that we 
grown - up people 
do. Yet, as time 
goes on, they learn 
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and her children plant- by degrees to appreciate them more and more. 
ing out Rockery Plants. tin 
1 o be sure, most children like to look at flowers, to 
have them about, and especially to make quaint little 
nosegays of brilliant, glaringly-contrasting flowers — red and 
yellow are mostly their favourites — but the tending of their 
plants is sometimes too much of a task. And one must 
not expect too much of children. 
A Child’s Garden has Great 
Educational Value. 
Nevertheless every bit of ground that children can 
call their own, or have a share in, is, in my opinion, of 
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