Fahie, J. J. (John Joseph), 1846-1934 · London, J. Murray · leaf 75
hich in1603 he added an adjoining piece of groundcontaining a large arbour and vine-trellises. Thecare of this garden, the flowers, the fruits, thevines, was his great delight. He saw to every-thing and did much himself in the way of weed-ing, pruning, tying. Indeed, all his life he wasvery fond of… … ^ ^ i6io RESIDENT PUPILS 49 imagine how charming and instructive his con-versations were, for Galileo had the habit ofallowing no natural phenomena, however trivialin appearance, to escape him, and he found theadvantage of this in his lectures and writings,as it furnished him with a stock of…
