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This is a typical garden at the height of summer, with its 

 muhitudes of larkspurs, hollyhocks, phlox and other thing;-. 

 You may think there is some hocus-pocus about that because 

 you find a lot of plants there in blossom which here in Maine 

 do not blossom simultaneously, and yet they are pictured here 

 together. But although 1 did not take that photograph, I think 

 the picture is genuine. We find in England, in the long slow 

 spring and the long slow summer many plants coming on to- 

 gether which here are total strangers. This is a pleasant little 

 valley in rural England, — shows the fine, pleasant, rural scen- 

 ery. The picture here is particularly interesting to me because 

 it shows an old orchard and a deer park combined right near 

 London. This is about ten miles from London. Now we have 

 tried in Amherst, Massachusetts, to nm an apple orchard and 

 a deer pasture combined for a number of years ; we do not 

 supply the deer, however, and we do not own them. The State 

 of Massachusetts claim that they own the cattle and we have 

 to support them. We dc not like the business and have been 

 trying very hard to keep the deer business and the apple busi- 

 ness apart. As a matter of fact, they do not conduct the two 

 together in Europe, but when they have a flock of deer over 

 there they make use of them. They keep them and they are all 

 tagged and numbered like so many Jersey cows and as soon as 

 they mature they go to market. And if the State of Massachu- 

 setts would conduct its deer business in that fashion T should 

 think very much more of it than I do at the present time. 



This little sketch along one of the pleasant rural paths in 

 England gives a nice idea of the country, one of the pleasantest 

 and most attractive countries in the world for the tourist, and I 

 think also for the one v/ho lives there. These pleasant paths 

 lead about all over the fields and are really public paths so 

 that one may wander about almost where he chooses in the 

 country and not feel he is trespassing anywhere, and come 

 upon all such pleasant, rural bucolic scenes as this where we 

 have the hay stack in the barnyard and all the farm work going 

 on. It is very interesting for a man who has been brought up 

 on a farm and who loves farm life and who likes to stop and 

 talk with the men and women at work in the fields. 



This is a pleasant country house in England, a house which 

 has stood for a little over two thousand years, and which as 



