THE GARDEN 
A garden, to those who love it, is a never- 
failing source of happiness. This love of 
gardens comes naturally to most people ; it is 
rarely that the sight and smell of flowers excite 
no joy, and yet it is only those who have 
worked and lived among their flowers who have 
felt this happiness to the full. Every one who 
cultivates this natural taste for flowers early 
in life will find as time goes on that it is an 
ever-growing fund of pleasure. A garden will 
repay with interest all the trouble spent upon 
it. Flowers are never ungrateful for care, and 
attentions lavished upon them cannot be thrown 
away, as is too often the case with thankless 
friends. The favourite toy may be broken, 
the wax doll may melt and lose her beauty, 
but the garden will never disappoint you. If 
for a minute you are distressed at seeing the 
flower-stalk of some choice plant broken off, 
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