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CHILDREN'S GARDENS 
IV 
care and patience, but it will well repay your 
trouble if you succeed . 1 
Although spring and autumn are the busiest 
seasons, yet I think I have shown how much 
you can find to do all through the summer 
months ; but there will be days of idleness too, 
hot sultry days perhaps, when you see the 
leaden clouds coming up, and feel you need 
not expend your energy in watering, as the 
heavy raindrops will soon do it so much better. 
Then it is pleasant to sit and watch the flowers, 
and the busy bees, and the white butterflies 
fluttering round. The flowers themselves 
keep regular hours. They are not wide 
awake all the twenty-four hours of each day. 
Some of them go to bed very early—long before 
the sun has set they fold up their petals for 
the night; others wait till the dew is falling, 
while others choose that time for waking up. 
They know the time to go, 
The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour 
In field and woodland, and each punctual flower 
Bows at the signal an obedient head, 
And hastes to go to bed. 
Susan Coolidge, Time to Go. 
Daisies are most punctual, and sunset finds 
them all asleep, and they wake up with the sun. 
The French name for the “Star of Bethlehem” 
( Ornithogalum) is Dame cTonze heures , from 
1 Roses will grow from seed, and some, especially Rosa rugosa , do 
well, but it is too slow to recommend to children. 
