366 MORE POT-POURRI 



JULY 



A night journey Dawn in the train Passing Chamberi A water- 

 cure near Geneva Amiel and his ' Journal Intime ' The New 

 Museum at Geneva M. Correvon's garden An afternoon at 

 Bale Boecklin again Cronberg and the ' Palmengarten ' 

 Planting shrubs to secure an especial effect The cultivation of 

 Alpine Strawberries Receipts. 



July 1st. I left Florence on one of the last days of 

 June, with oh ! such a sad heart and a feeling I should 

 never see it again. I am so conscious, as I said before, of 

 the wisdom of spending the rest of my life at home and 

 foregoing the pleasures of travel, as with my nature long 

 absences unfortunately diminish the pleasure and interest 

 I take in my own concerns, and regret at what I leave 

 behind comes between me and my happiness when I am 

 away. The weather had been wet, and directly the sun 

 was obscured the temperature was, if anything, rather too 

 cool. I do love a night railway journey, because of the 

 chance it gives one of seeing that most wondrously lovely 

 effect of Nature which we so seldom do see this growth 

 of the famous 'more light,' Goethe's last words the 

 triumphal march of the coming on of day. I determined to 

 enjoy it in spite of the presence of seven Italians, one 

 more than the carriage was intended to hold, who got in at 

 Genoa at four o'clock in the morning and never ceased 

 talking amongst themselves. 



It is not only the beauty of the growing light, but the 

 mysterious human awakening, the early smoke that coils 

 from some cottage chimney, the opening window, the man 



