. Let's make a flower garden. Floriculture. ion rjlHERE are some phrases which carry magic in •*• their sound, a magic which cannot be explained by mere logic, and the greatest of these phrases is, " Let's make a ; It has a " Merry Christ- mas," " Hurrah for the Fourth of July " tinkle of joy. The instinct to mingle with the soil evidences itself in the mud pie stage of childhood; as we grow older we merely make many more, and much more beauti- ful mud pies with frosting of perfumed color, and call it Garden. No one ever entirely grows up who lives in a gar
. Let's make a flower garden. Floriculture. ion rjlHERE are some phrases which carry magic in •*• their sound, a magic which cannot be explained by mere logic, and the greatest of these phrases is, " Let's make a ; It has a " Merry Christ- mas," " Hurrah for the Fourth of July " tinkle of joy. The instinct to mingle with the soil evidences itself in the mud pie stage of childhood; as we grow older we merely make many more, and much more beauti- ful mud pies with frosting of perfumed color, and call it Garden. No one ever entirely grows up who lives in a gar- den. I feel sure almost all gardeners still believe in Santa Claus; and as for fairies, was it not in Kensington Gardens that Mr. Barrie discovered all the wonderful facts about Peter Pan? Perhaps it is the help of the Little People that makes gardening so ea^y for mortals. I know many professionals try to scare one with all 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original VerBeck, Hanna (Rion) Mrs. 1875-. New York, McBride, Nast & company
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