. The happy garden . So^ood luck earned -^on my roof did li^htLike noiseless the dew of all at oncc;but<5ently:as the trees Arc, \w the sunbeams,tickcld byd^rccs fiferrJc. THE HAPPY GARDEN I Gardeners Pride To live in London and to possess a garden in thecountry is to be in the position of an Anglo-Indianmother whose children are in England. In thewinter and spring you snatch a Sunday here andthere to see how your flower-children are growingup ; all is not weU : you have fearful presenti-ments : they are not what you had planned anddreamed and hoped ! Your gardener crush
. The happy garden . So^ood luck earned -^on my roof did li^htLike noiseless the dew of all at oncc;but<5ently:as the trees Arc, \w the sunbeams,tickcld byd^rccs fiferrJc. THE HAPPY GARDEN I Gardeners Pride To live in London and to possess a garden in thecountry is to be in the position of an Anglo-Indianmother whose children are in England. In thewinter and spring you snatch a Sunday here andthere to see how your flower-children are growingup ; all is not weU : you have fearful presenti-ments : they are not what you had planned anddreamed and hoped ! Your gardener crushes youwith his expert professional knowledge : he dis-counts your enthusiasm as severely as a tutordiscounts a mothers love. Summer comes. Theflowers are beautiful, but the garden is not reallyyour garden—it is not intimate ; the gardener hasprovided a brave show, like hundreds of otherbrave shows, but the whole lacks form, atmosphere,breeding, manners—^what you will. Here andthere it is as though the flowers wer
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