THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



many rapids, and comes to rest in clear 

 brown pools where the sunlight sends its 

 golden glints, and shy trout can be seen if 

 one creeps softly to the water's edge. 



With just a bite of luncheon, a book, per- 

 haps a dog as companion, one can spend a 

 long, delicious day in this wonderful hemlock 

 glen, and, in late afternoon, in the level light 

 of the sunset hour, the walk across the quiet 

 fields to the low, gray farmhouse is not the 

 least of the day's delights. 



Standing before this quaint century-old 

 house, a never-to-be-forgotten landscape 

 stretches before us. To the eastward we look 

 down on a gently sloping field of broad ex- 

 panse, on the great twin elms which keep 

 watch at the gate of the Connecticut garden, 

 and see in the distance the rock-ledges and 

 boulders, the flowery meadow, the dark 

 cedars, and the general contours of the 

 natural garden. Towards the south, we look 

 out over tracts of woodland, much of it first 

 growth, over orchards of twisted apple trees 



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