What the Garden is like. 
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a garden is, it still may be possible to screen off 
the untidy part. Some people do this by making 
a tailish cross-fence, and covering it with some 
creeper that shuts out the view of a scrap of 
ground at the back. Others again keep the garden 
generally in no specially ornamental state, which 
latter is often the case where there are a good 
many small . gardens, but then they devote them- 
selves to some one particular little bed or corner, 
into which they put everything that is prettiest, 
and which they often shut in by some little fence 
to itself. These atoms of gardens I have seen 
look lovely. You know beauty does not consist in 
being great ; and so a little garden of a few feet 
square may be in itself as beautiful and as complete 
as one of a few acres. We gave, I remember, one 
of the two flower-beds that I shall soon describe 
to one of our governesses, who was very fond of 
flowers, and she used to go and garden very busily, 
and always made it look quite a mass of flowers ; 
she was a capital gardener, and used to teach 
us all quantities of things about plants and gar- 
dening, while her own bed was as pretty as it 
could have been in a ten times larger garden. 
For people then who want to have a really lovely 
.garden, no matter how small it may be, I greatly 
