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\ r iEW of tiie Park at Naesbyholm 
desire to own and cultivate a piece of ground, are everywhere increas¬ 
ing. During the last twenty or thirty years more gardens have been 
laid out than perhaps all the rest of the time Denmark has existed. 
Around all the larger towns there is a belt of villa gardens. During 
the summer the Copenhageners dwell all the way up to Hornbsek. 
Indeed, so close lies villa by villa along the Oresund that in the most 
recent years a powerful agitation has arisen to keep for the public the 
few pieces of the seashore which are not yet fenced in. 
It is along the Oresund and out along the fjord banks of the 
provincial towns that the villa quarters have grown up, but on the flat 
land farther in blossom elders and rose-trees in hundreds—nay, thou¬ 
sands of little gardens which the working-people have planted. Gar¬ 
den art celebrates no great triumphs in these “colony gardens.” For 
that there is too little of both acreage and money. Nor are architec¬ 
tural considerations of major importance when the colony garden’s 
summer house is put up, but the cabbage grows as vigorously here as 
any other place, the apples here have just as rosy cheeks as the gar¬ 
den’s happy children, and the fragrant bouquets from the colony 
garden’s flowers give a touch of beauty to the little working-people’s 
homes through the week. 
Quite early in the spring one can see spades and rakes in the 
street-cars going out from town; the clear spring air echoes the beats 
of the hammer where the summer houses are being built, and in April 
