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The Solitary Summer
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Elizabeth Von Arnim
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These
gardening
books
are
an
unfailing
delight,
especially
in
winter,
when
to
sit
by
my
blazing
peat
fire
with
the
snow
driving
past
the
windows
and
read
the
luscious
descriptions
of
roses
and
all
the
other
summer
glories
is
one
of
my
greatest
pleasures.
And
then
how
well
I
get
to
know
and
love
those
gardens
whose
gradual
development
has
been
described
by
their
owners,
and
how
happily
I
wander
in
fancy
down
the
paths
of
certain
specially
charming
ones
in
Lancashire,
Berkshire,
Surrey,
and
Kent,
and
admire
the
beautiful
arrangement
of
bed
and
border,
and
the
charming
bits
in
unexpected
corners,
and
all
the
evidences
of
untiring
love!
Any
book
I
see
advertised
that
treats
of
gardens
I
immediately
buy,
and
thus
possess
quite
a
collection
of
fascinating
and
instructive
garden
literature.
A
few
are
feeble,
and
get
shunted
off
into
the
drawing-room;
but
the
others
stay
with
me
winter
and
summer,
and
soon
lose
the
gloss
of
their
new
coats,
and
put
on
the
comfortable
look
of
old
friends
in
every-day
clothes,
under
the
frequent
touch
of
affection.
They
are
such
special
friends
that
I
can
hardly
pass
them
without
a
nod
and
a
smile
at
the
well-known
covers,
each
of
which
has
some
pleasant
association
of
time
and
place
to
make
it
still
more
dear.
My
spirit
too
has
wandered
in
one
or
two
French
gardens,
but
has
not
yet
heard
of
a
German
one
loved
beyond
everything
by
its
owner.
It
is,
of
course,
possible
that
my
countrymen
do
love
them
and
keep
quiet
about
them,
but
many
things
are
possible
that
are
not
probable,
and
experience
compels
me
to
the
opinion
that
this
is
one
of
them.
We
have
the
usual
rich
man
who
has
fine
gardens
laid
out
regardless
of
expense,
but
those
are
not
gardens
in
the
sense
I
mean;
and
we
have
the
poor
man
with
his
bit
of
ground,
hardly
ever
treated
otherwise
than
as
a
fowl-run
or
a
place
dedicated
to
potatoes;
and
as
for
the
middle
class,
it
is
too
busy
hurrying
through
life
to
have
time
or
inclination
to
stop
and
plant
a
rose.
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