Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Canadian Garden Book Getting back to nature tends to make a people content, tends also to make one healthier, and therefore happier. How can we as individuals live near to nature? We don't need to go miles to get it. Create it at home. In what way? By gardening! Every home no matter how large or small ought to have a garden. If we could only learn to think of the lack of flowers and gardens as being some thing to be ashamed of - and it is the sooner the spirit of gardening would be born in Canada. Relax! Most of you live in a whirl. Your threadbare, over-strained nerves are crying out for relaxation. Help create a Canadian garden pic ture! Are you one of the pessimists who doubt that Canada can ever be as beautiful as the Motherland? Go out and dig, grow flowers, and you'll soon believe it can be done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.