Name: John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein
Author: Frank R. Stockton
ISBN: 978-1163741658

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

By Frank R. Stockton 9 Oct, 2020

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Excerpt....... The garden did not belong to John Gayther; he merely had charge of it. At certain busy seasons, he had some men to help him in his work, but for the greater part of the year, he preferred doing everything himself. It was a very fine garden over which John Gayther had charge. It extended this way and that for long distances. It was difficult to see how far it did extend, there were so many old-fashioned box hedges; so many paths overshadowed by venerable grape-arbors; and so many far-stretching rows of peach, plum, and pear trees. Fruit, bushes, and vines there were of which the roll need not be called; and flowers grew everywhere. It was one of the fancies of the Mistress of the House—and she inherited it from her mother—to have flowers in great abundance so that wherever she might walk through the garden she would always find them. Less

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