Practical Garden

The garden made by one’s own hands is always the best garden, because it is a part of oneself. A garden made by another may interest, but it is another person’s individuality. A poor garden of one’s own is better than a good garden in which one may not dig. Many a poor soul has more help in a plant in the window than another has in a plantation made by a gardener. Gardening is more than the growing of plants: it is the expression of desire. 
L. H. BAILEY 1903