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Garden at Rtjngsted in North Sjaelland 
when the sun becomes stronger it is touching to see how people work 
in the colonies. Then there is no question about an eight hour work¬ 
ing day, current prices, and the daily wrangle. Father digs the holes, 
the children put in the potatoes, they dig, they spread the gravel on, 
one wheels out the fertilizer, another cuts the fruit trees with an expert 
air; all are enthusiastic, all are working, for now it is spring again 
and the “garden” is this year to be so fine, so very fine. 
The colony gardens are of the very greatest importance for the 
great mass of people in the cities. The manor gardens are unfor¬ 
tunately on a decline. They are more aristocratic than modern society 
well can endure. The colony gardens, on the other hand, are demo¬ 
cratic enough, in close contact with the times; but the villa garden 
stands just between. The villa garden does not, like the manor garden, 
demand open space on all sides, so and so many acres of field and 
forest all the way around and a magnificent castle with many family 
memories in its midst. To be sure, there are large and handsomely 
equipped villas occasionally which, indeed, are far more comfortable 
to live in than the manor houses, but near a town one must be prepared 
to have neighbors on all sides; land is costly, wherefore one must limit 
oneself greatly in this respect; and, finally, there is an element of 
uncertainty in the town-dweller’s life because no one knows where 
his children will live, whether any of them will live in the house he 
