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HOME AND GARDEN 



and in some cases whole tops, and tie them into 

 arbour and trellis with osier withes. These materials 

 are easily to be had in the district I have mostly in 

 mind, and probably in any other there would be 

 equivalents. And it does not do to give it up 

 because the first person asked cannot put one in 

 the way of finding out. One must ask everybody ; 

 especially country carriers, old country carpenters, 

 land and estate agents, auctioneers, landlords of 

 public-houses where numbers of country folk call. 

 And so I should make my little garden warm 

 and snug in winter as well as well clothed and 

 shaded with luscious leafage in summer, and it 

 would only be in the keen winds of March that the 

 sheltering branches would turn first pale and then 

 rusty, and then we would have them down and 

 make them into a neat stack in the corner where 

 rubbish is burnt, to use from time to time as the 

 substructure of the frequent fire-heap. 



