Our gardens / by S. Reynolds Hole.

  • Samuel Hole
Date:
1901
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Credit: Our gardens / by S. Reynolds Hole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    flowers, or sweeter than the nightingale’s note ; but the flighty one still wished to fly. A capacious gentleman informed me that nothing in horticulture touched him so sensibly as green peas and new potatoes, and he spoke with so much cheerful candour that I could not be angry; but my indignation was roused by a morose millionaire, when he declared that of all his expenses he grudged most the outlay on his confounded garden. Dejected, I sought solace from certain ladies and gentlemen, who had expressed in my hear- ing their devoted love of flowers. They were but miserable comforters. Their devotion was superficial, their homage conventional: there was no heart in their worship. I met with many who held flowers in high estimation, not for their own sake, not for the loveliness and per- fect beauty of their colour, their fragrance, and their form, not because even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these, but because they were the most effective decora- tions of their window-sills, apartments, and tables, and the most becoming embellishments for their own personal display. I found gentle-
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