THE COUNTRY HOME [CHAPTER 
and August, under the trees, and out of publicity 
— a place for rustic stone seats; and we hope a 
brook is within hearing. Here go, of a noonday, 
and let the ripple of the water show you how to 
take your cares for better, not worse, and how to 
keep your work going to music. 
Perhaps another one of the family will take 
to cross-breeding, and you will find his bed of 
seedling phloxes, or of seedling geraniums, or of 
seedlings something else, a marvel of creation; and 
assuredly his groups of new shrubs will be a joy 
forever. This is the grandest power of man — to 
create new things—and it ought to be a part of 
family life everywhere in the country. 
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