eye and heart have been trained to respect these 

 chance visitors? 



The ancients had a delightful way of commemo- 

 rating events and people by marble and other endur- 

 ing tBings. I can see why we should hesitate to 

 borrow from friends, but I don't see why we should 

 not borrow from dead Greeks; therefore I've made 

 my garden largely commemorative and memorial. 



For instance, there's that hedge on the north 

 boundary; it's true we needed a wind-brealc there, 

 but it was much sweeter to forget necessity and let 

 its planting become an epic; therefore, after one 

 especially delightful honeymoon (we have them an- 

 nually and sometimes accidentally ) we came home with 

 the new enthusiasm bred of a short absence from 

 home, and set out ninety-something hemlocks and 

 called it " The Honeymoon Hedge." 



Then there is the terrace planned in honor of the 

 advent of two dearly loved friends who had a weak- 

 ness for breakfasting outdoofs. I made my garden 

 partner haul stones for days like an Italian laborer, 

 and we both behaved like ground moles tunnelling 

 out earth for many other days ; and then a great 

 christening rain descended prematurely and we only 

 achieved a mud hole in a stone quarry by the time 



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