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Larkspurs and Hollyhocks 



&quot;JONATHAN, let s not have a garden.&quot; 

 &quot;What 11 we live on if we don t?&quot; 

 &quot;Oh, of course, I don t mean that kind of a 



garden, peas and potatoes and things, 



I mean flowers. Let s not have a flower 



garden.&quot; 



&quot;That seems easy enough to manage,&quot; he 



ruminated; &quot;the hard thing would be to have 



one.&quot; 



&quot;I know. And what s the use? There are 

 always flowers enough, all around us, from 

 May till October. Let s just enjoy them.&quot; 



&quot;I always have.&quot; 



I looked at him to detect a possible sarcasm 

 in the words, but his face was innocent. 



&quot;Well, of course, so have I. But what I 

 mean is people when they have a country 

 place seem to spend such a lot of energy doing 

 things for themselves that nature is doing for 

 them just over the fence. There was Christa- 



