THE GARDEN AT HOME 



matters, will read, as it were, between the lines and 

 weave, with apparently quite prosaic material, love 

 dreams and friendship lore of days of long ago. 



In shady corners there may be wild Ferns from the 

 West Country and from Wales ; in the sunshine the Alpen 

 Rose and Edelweiss from the Alpine heights of the Bernese 

 Oberland, miniature Daffodils from Spain, the exquisite 

 Gentian from the Westmorland dales and the incompar- 

 able Gentianella from the Alps and Pyrenees ; scarlet 

 Anemones from Riviera woods ; the rosy spires of Loose- 

 strife from the upper reaches of the Thames, and countless 

 others from gardens, great and small, all gathered in 

 happy, careless days, when all was well with the world, 

 or given with graciousness and open heart by strangers 

 with whom one had nothing in common but simple love 

 for lowly flowers. 



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