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The gardener’s lot is a happy one

ONE of my favourite books for this time of year, , is illustrated with black-and-white photos of a gardener working on his plot. His hair is cropped, his trousers high and his braces buttoned, and gloriously bleak and windswept is the long back garden of his house, bereft of flowers or shrubs, but containing many rods of sandy soil, raked to

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