44 IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN 



right results. No doubt bad seasons are a trial of 

 his faith ; it is grievous to lose the fruits of much 

 labour by a frosty winter or a droughty summer ; 

 but, after all, frost and drought are necessities for 

 which, in all his calculations, he must leave an ample 

 margin ; but even in the extreme cases, when the 

 margin is past, the gardener's occupation is not gone. 



