COUNTRY LIFE, OLD AND NEW 



velop home surroundings of the most charming kind. 

 The true lover of nature may surround his home with 

 the shrubs and plants, rarer and choicer than any com- 

 mercial florist can supply, taken from the wild, and 

 often from his own lands. Norfolk affords several such 

 homes with houses of simple lines, banked with laurel 

 and native rhododendron and with grounds dotted here 

 and there with mountain ash, birch and other native 

 trees, the whole having a background of native conifers. 

 Such homes, nestled among the hills, provide a quiet 

 and restful retreat not found on the broad, fertile 

 acres of the flat country. 



In general the owners of the second type of country 

 homes are descendants of the original settlers. They 

 feel an ancestral pride in seeing the farm improve, with 

 the idea that it will remain in the family for generations 

 to come. In building, they build not alone for the im- 

 mediate present but also for future generations. If 

 they set out an orchard they do not always expect to 

 reap the full rewards of the fruits thereof themselves, 

 but live in the hope that future generations will enjoy 

 the fruits of their labors. If they make permanent and 

 lasting improvements on a piece of land, they do it with 

 the feeling that the next generation will profit from 

 their labors fully as much as the one who does the work. 

 They are not like the famous politician who, when told 

 that he ought to have consideration for the rights of 



