2 THE NEW REGIME 



of a gardener which the general public hardly 

 realise, unless they are brought into touch with 

 students who live surrounded by this atmosphere, 

 that it may be pardonable, I hope, to make it 

 more widely known. 



It is, indeed, a surprise to awake one morning 

 in October and feel that just at the commencement 

 of the horticultural year, when all preparation of 

 the land and planning for fresh crops has to be 

 undertaken, the work is transferred to other hands 

 and that in future I can be a mere onlooker. 



No longer is the first thought of the day a con- 

 sideration of the weather and the consequent 

 garden operations that need to be done ; never 

 again will autumn evenings find me intent upon 

 adding up totals in the receipt columns made by 

 sales of produce, to see what can be spent for the 

 general good. The winter's fire will not, as it 

 crackles, give impulse to my plans for handling 

 students. All this has now passed into other, 

 more capable hands than mine, and, strange to 

 say, much as I enjoyed it, much as it was part of 

 me, I do not regret it. 



It would seem, at first sight, that this sudden 

 cessation of one's accustomed everyday life, the 

 consequent change of daily thought and fixed 

 routine, might detract from the prospective en- 

 joyment of freedom. It is only necessary, how- 

 ever, to look out over those strong, enduring lines 

 of the South Downs, as seen from the garden, to 

 feel that when the heart is centred in advancing 

 a cause there can be no turning away from it, 

 and although work, in time to come, will not bring 



