12 Making a Bulb Garden 
they pour forth incense too, from their 
sweet hearts ; a gentle, still flower-speech 
that steals into the soul more surely than 
anything seen or than any spoken word. 
None of the flowers in this great class 
is “dumb ;” while some yield a fragrance 
more ravishing than any other in the 
world. 
Ours in perpetuity are all these joys 
for just the work of once planting — 
practically — and then letting alone. 
What conservation; what profit on the 
investment; what efficiency! How is it 
that anyone ever overlooks these won- 
derful garden habitants? How is it that 
everyone does not devote the half at least, 
if not the whole, of his garden to them? 
I think that we are safe in saying that 
three things in this world are certain, in- 
stead of two- — and that the bulb garden is 
the third. Bulbs will go ahead bravely 
and grow and blossom, wherever they are 
put, whoever puts them there; and so, 
if someone who actually hated flowers — 
