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boots stuffed full and heaped with bright little 
yellow balls ? This is the food with which the 
young are fed, and you may often see a tired 
worker laden at the hive-door, and another fresh 
bee coming to unload his friend. Bees are things 
that make gardens very cheerful. There is a 
warm, pleasant feeling of a sunshiny dayjin the 
very sound of the bees as they hum amidst the 
flowers. I was always particular in sowing 
flowers for them, and there sounds something 
pleasant in “ having a fine bee-pasture.” Borage 
and Mignonette are first-rate things for this, and 
though the former certainly should only be in the 
bee-ground, as it is hardly pretty enough to have 
in a flower-garden, I am sure the latter is a flower 
of which we are never tired. I like to sow it 
everywhere where there is a corner vacant — 
amongst shrubs and borders and in beds of 
flowers, and once I remember well a house-wall 
covered with Roses and Cape Jessamines which 
grew up from the gravel, and all along by their 
roots was a most fragrant carpet where Mignonette 
had sown itself. 
That was growing, you see, actually on gravel, 
and it is often found that on such hard dry soil the 
“seeds that stand through the winter answer very 
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