Ernest Bramah

“ A little experience will soon teach the careful gardener what course to adopt, and as a golden rule we would observe that it is better to err on the side of restraint than of excess, whether the question involved is that of using the hose-pipe or of withholding it. ”

“ I said, when I had privately satisfied myself that the labels to which I was accustomed had been thoughtlessly removed, "these, Irene, are—er—pink geraniums."
I don't pretend to understand the depths of Irene's nature fully yet, although we have been married several months. Sometimes she prattles consecutively, at others she is strangely silent, and occasionally she develops a curious irrelevance. ”

“ The following day I secretly bought a hand-book on gardening. I knew by instinct—the primeval woodcraft of generations of arboreous ancestors breaking through the thin veneer of suburban artificiality—that some day the geraniums would require watering. ”