[Gutenberg 40183] • A Garden with House Attached

[...]shrubs and hardy herbaceous plants. Himself a skilled and enthusiastic horticulturist-after twenty years of painstaking cultivation, his garden close, with its mellow low-lying site and unobstructed southern exposure, had become a miracle of productiveness. It had not, like the Medford garden, been "laid out." Flowers, fruit, and vegetables, were all in a riotous jumble; yet each the perfection of its kind. The marvel was that one small garden could carry such a load of growth![...].