Successful Gardening Is Not Necessarily A Question

For A Young Man To Start His Career With A Love Affair With An Older Woman Was Quite De Rigueur ... Of Course, It Must Not Go On For Too Long. An Apprenticeship Was A Very Different Thing From A Career.

Summer Makes A Silence After Spring.

Travel Is A Private Pleasure, Since It Consists Entirely Of Things Felt And Things Seen.

It Is A Sad Moment When The First Phlox Appears. It Is The Amber Light Indicating The End Of The Great Burst Of Early Summer And Suggesting That We Must Now Start Looking Forward To Autumn. Not That I Have Any Objection To Autumn As A Season, Full Of Its Own Beauty; But I Just Cannot Bear To See Another Summer Go, And I Recoil From What The First Hint Of Autumn Means.

For Bees Are Captious Folk / And Quick To Turn Against The Lubber's Touch.