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CHILDREN’S GARDENS 
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delighted to find my perseverance was really 
rewarded, for just a little attention in the early 
spring will now keep these enemies at bay. 
Now I have told you something about the 
various kinds of gardens, so that you will 
understand what is meant when I tell you that 
a plant is suitable for a wild garden, or that it 
should only be grown in a bed, and you will 
be able to know whether it would suit your 
particular garden or not. But a large number 
of plants will grow equally well in either kind 
of garden, in which case I will not tell you to 
put them in any special place. My advice to 
children is to be content with the kind of 
garden they have, and to make the very best 
they can of it. All gardens may give an equal 
amount of pleasure, and nearly all flowers too. 
There is such an immense number to choose 
from that every kind of garden can be well 
supplied with plants suited to it. My own 
formal garden was rather shady, and by experi¬ 
ence I found that the flower which really grew 
best of all in it was the pansy, so I devoted the 
“ lion’s share ” of the beds to that plant, and 
gave it special care. I grew so devoted to my 
pansies that, although I love all flowers, I 
think the warmest corner in my heart is still 
given to the pansy. I grew the violas or 
tufted pansies, as well as the large handsome 
