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Evening Star, Issue 16998, 21 March 1919, Page 1

Great as is the utilitarian value of a garden, even in normal times, there are othor values, Joss obvious, but which, 1 would BiiKgefiV. may bo even more important. One of the-ie is that when a. man becomes a gardener, especially if he he a town dweller, he comes more clcselv into touch with Nature. The town dwoiler who takes a garden for the first time, makes a change "in his life much more profound than ia usually realised. Ho finds himself suddenly related to primitive man still latent within himself, over fresh, ever robust. He enters into a working partnership with Mother ESrth and tha sun, and the.«o keep up the vitalising work while he rests. Ho feoin like an orphan who has unexpectedly dis covered a good and loving father and mother, and he experiences * joy in life unJcno»;a hefysr^— Otogo Gwd*. £