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few years after the new fashion came in, the 

 duty on glass was taken off, and greenhouses, 

 which had once been a luxury, now became ar 

 supposed necessary of life. Hence, bedding-out, 

 instead of being an expensive form of gardening, 

 became a singularly easy and not a very costly 

 method of having a certain show of bright and 

 effective colouring. But this colouring was all. 

 In the old walled garden, instead of the plants, 

 which so long had had their home there, each 

 of which knew its season and claimed welcome 

 as an old friend, there were bare beds till June, 

 and then, when the summer was hottest, a 

 glare of the hottest, brightest, colours. But the 

 walled garden was better than the newly-cut 

 circles on the lawn. In the garden there would 

 at least be the shade of one of the garden walls. 

 In the outside Italian garden, where, with the 

 smooth old turf, trees had been cut away, there 

 would be no shade whatever. Nobody would 

 really care to walk there, and probably no one 

 would be allowed to gather flowers, for fear of 

 spoiling the symmetry of the beds. Nor can 



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