Outing . veral parties beating the moors forpheasants with their dogs and drivers as theseason had opened the week prior to ourvisit. The Pass of Killiecrankie throughwhich we passed is where the Duke, whomJohn Drew made famous, is supposed tohave lived. It is a gem of nature, resem-bling greatly some of the well knownnotches in the White Mountains. This run. from Perth, a distance of 118miles, which we made easily in one day, isone of the most beautiful motor trips thatanyone can imagine. There are few towns,but the scenery is wild and absolutelyunique. In all Europe or America there isnothin
Outing . veral parties beating the moors forpheasants with their dogs and drivers as theseason had opened the week prior to ourvisit. The Pass of Killiecrankie throughwhich we passed is where the Duke, whomJohn Drew made famous, is supposed tohave lived. It is a gem of nature, resem-bling greatly some of the well knownnotches in the White Mountains. This run. from Perth, a distance of 118miles, which we made easily in one day, isone of the most beautiful motor trips thatanyone can imagine. There are few towns,but the scenery is wild and absolutelyunique. In all Europe or America there isnothing just like it, and when one has beenover it it is easy to see the fascinationwhich is always attached to the moors ofScotland. August is, however, a bad timeto make the trip because of the frequentrains. The knowing ones told us that Juneand July were always better for motoring,and after the experience we had on thistrip we should, if we make the trip again,tour Great Britain in July and France HOW TO MAKE A GARDEN BY ZONA GALE ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS IT is an ancient pursuit, gardening, asMr. Pecksniff tolerantly observed; andso many charming folk have found allElysium in a plot of ground that one cannotthink why more of them do not look for itthere. Long before spring we might all beconcerned with breathings on dust and in-carnations of seeds and the other bright,infinite businessof creation. For ones spiritmust first move on the face of the garden. There should be no naive gardening—the having of green things merely becauseone has always had them. If ever a manis to be self conscious, alive to his fingertips, he should be so when he is about hisgardening. To go forth in the chamber ofspring, to arrange that chamber with bloomand bough and sward and dial—this is oneof the occupations which he has in commonwith the Great Hand. When, at a touch,violets rise, there will be for the gardenersomething of the joy with which Godfashioned, say, the first fern. Yes,
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