THE COUNTRY HOME [chapter 



and August, under the trees, and out of publicity 

 ^ a place for rustic stone seats; and we hope a 

 brook is within hearing. Here go, of a noonday, 

 and let the ripple of the water show you how to 

 take your cares for better, not worse, and how to 

 keep your work going to music. 



Perhaps another one of the family will take 

 to cross-breeding, and you will find his bed of 

 seedling phloxes, or of seedling geraniums, or of 

 seedlings something else, a marvel of creation ; and 

 assuredly his groups of new shrubs will be a joy 

 forever. This is the grandest power of man — to 

 create new things — and it ought to be a part of 

 family life everywhere in the country. 



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