A GARDEN IN VENICE 



passion for games and athletics may, as we are 

 told, be carried too far, surely that for a garden 

 cannot be. If football and cricket may too soon 

 be too much for us ; if bridge all day, as well as 

 all night, is not, or may not be, entirely healthy ; 

 gardening must be so always, and will give us 

 occupation and delight from one's earliest days to 

 one's end, making even the weary strive to post- 

 pone that end from the longing to see the next 

 year's blossom. 



God Almighty, Bacon tells us, planted a 

 garden. What can we do better, who can so 

 little do, than humbly yet lovingly strive to make 

 another ? 



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