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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They are for ever planting, and for ever digging up.
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The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be
Though unaware, now use your seeds like words
And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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Born:
March 9, 1892
Died:
June 2, 1962
(aged 70)
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