Finally

DON’T banish charm and
mystery from your gar-
den, while you welcome those
dull companions — custom
and convention.

‘How willingly would I
strew the path of all with
flowers ; how beautiful a
delight to make the world
joyous !

‘The song should never be
silent 3 the dance never still ;
the laugh should sound like
water which runs for ever.’

Richard Jefferies.

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DON’T bound your am-
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and flowers than your neigh-
bours, but try to make your
little corner of the world as
lovely as you can.

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DON’T buy a ready-made
rustic Summer House,
(stained and varnished and
lined — crowning abomination
— with pitch-pine), and set it
down in an old-world garden
am ong clipped yew hedges —
it has been done!

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DON’T have evergreens
in your garden because
they are evergreens ; a melan-
choly shrub is not less ugly
because it does not shed its
leaves in winter!

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DON’T, on the other hand,
tell your friend, whose
garden nestles in a belt of
trees, that for your part you
cannot breathe except on the
top of a hill!

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DON’T, when you call at
a new house on a wind-
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fuse to grow, forget to admire
the view.

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DON’T be so busy tidying
up and cutting off the
dead flowers, that you forget
to admire the living ones.

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