According to the Gardener, Mr. George Giesing, the celobratod novelist, lives mostly in the country and has, in his own words, " taught himself gardening." Some years agobefore he became famous, indeed expressed to a friend the opinion that literary workers tind their best and most restful recreation in the use of the hoc and spade. Not only does this writer love garden and greenhouse flowers, but his knowledge is extensive of the " wildings" that grow about; the lanes and meadows round Epsom. Mr. Gissing's father was a noted botanist, and famed for the books he wrote upon the flora ,» of his native Yorkshire. Mr. Ueorge . Gissins; came to London when he was twenty, to earn his living as a writer, .but. he loved country life, and resolved to return to it some day. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11745, 29 August 1901, Page 5
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