In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . what with heavy furniture, East-ern rugs and hangings, and flowers and dwarf shrubsin all the rooms, and vines about all the windows,and pots of green and color on all the door-steps, itis a house very much adorned. And with bathroomand fireplaces it is as comfortable as it is pleasant tosee. But there are yet the outbuildings and the gardento tell of. The garden! ah, that is the joy over all;that will be the untellable thing. That May pro-cession of flowers! Those wonderful June eveningsof fire-flies ! Those July days of ckale!
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . what with heavy furniture, East-ern rugs and hangings, and flowers and dwarf shrubsin all the rooms, and vines about all the windows,and pots of green and color on all the door-steps, itis a house very much adorned. And with bathroomand fireplaces it is as comfortable as it is pleasant tosee. But there are yet the outbuildings and the gardento tell of. The garden! ah, that is the joy over all;that will be the untellable thing. That May pro-cession of flowers! Those wonderful June eveningsof fire-flies ! Those July days of ckale! The orangesin blossom; the nespoli ready for eating; the fat figsripening and swelling to bursting; the tiny olives,slowly, so very slowly, getting to be less tiny and Our Villa 27 then to be not tiny at all, just small and finally—butthis is not the place! It is the turn of the outbuildings. These are inthe lower garden. We get to this lower garden fromthe terrace, which is on the same level as the house,either by the pretty stone stair by the walnut trees. The huge red brocca on the housetop. or by the gently dropping path with the tall poppieson one side and the dwarf red roses on the other. Atthe end of this path is the stone laundry tub under anarbor of Banksia roses, and next to it the vine-cladpony stable with three little stalls. In it is also aroom in which Beppi sits each day for half an hourto turn the big wheel that someway pumps waterfrom the cistern to the huge red brocca on the house-top. Opposite the pony stable is the gardenershouse with two sleeping-rooms and grainroom, and 28 Our Villa underneath it alcov^es for the pots and tools. Thereare cement-walled forcing frames near by, with theglass tops all broken by hail. And now, finally, after all this laborious and per-haps superfluous detail of description, the truly in-quiring mind, especially that cautious feminine one;the mind really interested because its possessor in-dulges the fancy, perhaps, of some d
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