FLOWER LOVES OF CHILDHOOD 



So, now, the two rooted creatures of the Villino, which 

 may be said to exist there more ^ () 

 specially for the behoof of Loki's nHHMUUUL 

 Grandpa, are the Briar 

 bushes at the end of the 

 Lily Walk and by the 

 Schone Aussicht, and the 

 still tender but promising 

 Wisteria climbers in the 

 re-entering and most shel- 

 tered corner of his study 

 walls. 



And it is for those young 

 hopeful Wisterias that on 

 this frosty night I feel a 

 concern. Last year we had 

 a score or so of purple 

 clusters/ we look to a 

 goodly increase during the 

 coming Renouveau.~<you 

 perceive the old, obsolete 

 French word for Spring 

 comes back of itself !> The 

 anticipation of the near 

 future, within the shrinking 

 vista of coming pleasures, elicits 

 as usual a return to the widen- 

 ing past. In this case the past that is 

 recalled is that of a childhood spent in 

 France. 



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