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CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
FEW days ago, three young friends 
of mine made an urgent request that 
I would tell them about my garden 
when I was a child, and that I would 
advise them also how to manage theirs. 
And so it struck me that a book about 
small gardens might really be very welcome. 
I remember indeed, when we all were children, 
what work we had to find anything described in 
books small enough for our wants. Once we read 
all the chapters that spoke of “ Cottage Gardens,” 
because we calculated that they must be small ! 
J3ut, alas! we found that turnips and potatoes were 
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