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Where half the skill is decently to hide He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds Surprises, varies, and conceals the bounds We have that now written in one of our structures on the garden And in a way, it's kind of the philosophy of this garden We were married in 1949 And rented a house in Boston for a while Had a little garden there, a place for a garden And I decided I'd try to garden it And I needed help, so I made him help me And he wasn't very interested After that, he had a business failure in New York And he was sort of discouraged by that And decided he'd get out of the business world And so he came up here and started doing gardening In some of what my father's aims to do with the garden were Rather than be didactic and teach people about plants He wanted to move people I think that my father was an artist first He was a sort of patrician character Very much a cabot, upper class American An enormous charm And also a very strong French feeling Which perhaps did come from living in Canada I don't know what a genius really is But very often geniuses are a little mad as well And if he hadn't had a lot of money, you might have said he was I think in part, desire to plunge into gardening in middle age Was the consequence of having a lot of business troubles I'd had reverses, I'd had some successes I'd had some reverses The reverses were painful enough So that they made a major effect And I felt that I had to prove That I could do something right after them And gardening seemed to be a natural avenue to pursue So it was really that, I think, that got me into it I see visiting a garden As basically an emotional and sensual experience As well as something that is filled with surprise Really, to visit a garden is a special thing You just don't go through looking at what you see You really should do it alone Or with maybe one sympathetic friend Who doesn't talk too much It's awful to have people talking When you're going through a garden If you're a real garden visitor And I must say I've learnt about visiting garden By watching people go through this garden And the good ones, they look at things quietly And drink them in And they think about them And they begin to in a way Have a conversation with the garden And they listen to what it's saying to them I think what is always attached to the place Is where you spend your childhood in the summers And I grew up here I was born in 1925 And the next summer I was here I've been here every summer of my life since then As my parents, grandparents And even great-grandparents before me The first member of the family Arrived here in 1842 To escape an epidemic of cholera in Quebec And spent the summer on this place Down by the beach And he got very fond of it When he married He came and lived in Pointe-aux-Piques In the very early tourist days of the community And then ended up building a house Around the turn of the century Crossed the way And then in 1902 bought this property Anticosti Island was put up for auction And it had seven salmon rivers on it And he was very interested in buying that So he made a bid But he lost out to Mr. Chocolat Meunier The chocolate king of France And he was very upset at that And he was in the garrison club in Quebec Drowning his sorrows When he ran into his childhood friend Who owned this place And who said, oh, stop grumbling You can buy my place for $50,000