bat-tling with my refractory flowers, an old book fell into my hands, and I learned from it how, in the old days, gardens without flowers had been con-sidered pleasure enough. In fact it was only in 1567 that flower gardens were really invented by a man named John Parkinson. Until then only fruit,… … raisins. Queen Elizabeth, with her love of color, naturallyencouraged flower gardens. Here was an idea for me. Ifmy foremothers before her had been content to do withoutflowers why should not I ? After this I felt quite justified in ending the unequalstruggle. Flowers I would give up. They should…
Architecture, Domestic · Landscape gardening
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