CHAPTER VIII 



ROBABLY the joy of a 

 garden lies, more or less, in 

 its wealth ; one loves to see 

 things grow as if they liked 

 it. To see colour in masses, 

 depth of shade,bloom in pro- 

 fusion, glorious promise, 

 and bountiful flowering — 

 these are the characteristics that the soil of the 

 Tomba dei Fiori will give to those who ask it. It is 

 well, no doubt, where Nature is more frugal, to 

 plant beds and borders with many different sorts of 

 flowers ; with paint-box in hand to study precisely 



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