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The Young Gardener . 
•with, blue Convolvolus, Sweet-peas and Nastur- 
tiums ; and do you know indeed, though I am a 
grown-up woman now, I would exceedingly like 
again to have such a garden. So you see that 
grown-up people do not at all despise a real nice 
child’s garden. 
Shall we suppose that all my readers have got a 
piece of ground, something between six steps long 
and twenty ? Only if you have a choice as to 
where that is to be, mind be sure and don’t get a 
place which is always shady. A little bit of 
ground where the sun shines in the afternoon after 
two o’clock, or early in the morning, is perhaps 
the very nicest, and in such a place, if sheltered, 
you will have the earliest flowers. 
I cannot help making one suggestion here ; every 
one knows how very awkward it is to have to do 
all “our untidy work,” making our heaps of stones, 
and stands of flower-pots, and beds of seedlings, 
and perhaps keeping our hand-glasses, in our only 
garden. 
This is a thing that troubles grown-up gar- 
deners quite as much as younger ones, only young 
gardeners more generally are much limited as to 
space. 
Now I cannot help thinking that however small 
