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to please his wife
having no natural
inclination; but he had no sooner set his hand to it
than
like everything
else he touched
it became with him a passion. He budded roses
he
potted cuttings in the coach-house; if there came a change of weather at
night
he would rise out of bed to protect his favourites; when he was
thrown with a dull companion
it was enough for him to discover in the
man a fellow gardener; on his travels
he would go out of his way to visit
nurseries and gather hints; and to the end of his life
after other
occupations prevented him putting his own hand to the spade
he drew
up a yearly programme for his gardener
in which all details were
regulated. He had begun by this time to write. His paper on Darwin
which had the merit of convincing on one point the philosopher himself
had indeed been written before this in London lodgings; but his pen was
not idle at Claygate; and it was here he wrote (among other things) that
review of 'FECUNDITY
FERTILITY
STERILITY
AND ALLIED
TOPICS
' which Dr. Matthews Duncan prefixed by way of introduction
to the second edition of the work. The mer [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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“Do you mean for Kadife
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