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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    might be a mere hallucination, an idiosyncrasy, a want of manliness, a softening of the brain. Nevertheless I persevered in my inquiries, until I found that which I sought—the sympathy of an enthusiasm as hearty as my own, a brotherhood and a sisterhood, who, amid all the ignorance and pretence of which I have given examples, were devoted to the culture of flowers, and en- joyed from this occupation a large portion of the happiness, which is the purest and the surest we can know on earth, the happiness of Home. I received this sympathy from all sorts and conditions of men, and wherever I found it, the right hand of fellowship was held out to welcome. Sometimes that hand was huge, and hard, and discoloured: sometimes it was small and white. In some cases its operations were limited to a few window-plants, to a couple of grimy frames in a back yard, to a small cottage or allotment garden; and in others they had a wider range, in the suburbs, the villa of the tradesman, the mansion of the merchant, by the farmhouse, the parsonage, the hall, the castle, and the palace. Here there was a ‘‘green- house” not bigger than a four-post bed, and