A HOME 

 VEGETABLE-GARDEN 



THE JOY OF A GARDEN 



You ought to own a garden. Size does not 

 matter particularly, and it is not necessary that 

 you hold a legal deed to your garden. Once you 

 dig the soil yourself and sow the seed yourself; 

 once your own plants begin to grow and to thrive 

 under your care your own work in weeding and 

 watering then the garden is yours and all the 

 beauty around is yours. The sweet scents and the 

 bird songs; the shadow on the hillside and the 

 sound of the breeze in the trees all are yours. 

 As Titbottom says, "you own the landscape when 

 you work a garden." 



I own my garden, the vegetables that grow 

 there and the cuckoo in the shelter of the low 

 boughs of an old apple tree on its edge. Lavender 

 and English thyme and sweetest fennel grow by 

 the garden walk ; and every morning on my way to 

 work I am refreshed by the whiffs of herby fra- 



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