SUN-DIAL— PERGOLA 



of life for them in the country. What 

 a dehghtful tie, fondness for gardening makes 

 between people! I know several men with 

 beautiful places and lovely gardens in which 

 they take the warmest personal interest. 

 Whenever I meet one of them at din- 

 ner, if by chance I am not seated next 

 to him, I am unhappy and cannot listen 

 sympathetically, either to the enthusiasm of 

 the man on one side whose heart is, per- 

 haps, bound up in golf, or to the laments of 

 my neighbor on the other, who may be suf- 

 fering from rheumatism or gout, and unable 

 to eat or drink what he wants. 



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