A BOOK ABOUT THE GABDEN 

 AND THE GABDENEB. 



THE GARDENERS DREAM. 



I HAP attached myself one evening to the slimmer end 

 of a big Broseley pipe, and my mind in musing about 

 many things, 



" Tenui ineditamur avena," 



settled finally, like a weary butterfly upon a Eose, on 

 the recreations and amusements of life. And when I 

 asked myself which of them all brings the longer and 

 larger happiness, there appeared amid the smoke a 

 medium of communication so frequently adopted by 

 our old friends the Genii in the " Arabian Nights," 

 the vision of a man. A bright, pleasant, healthful 

 face smiled beneath a cap of glossy velvet ; two 

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