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Gardens of England (1911)

Cook, E. T. (Ernest Thomas), 1867-1915, Parsons, Beatrice E., illus · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 208

An illustration from Gardens of England, 1911, leaf 208
and looked into its cool depths, theprimroses seemed to be playing at hide-and-seekamongst the mossy stubs of the nut bushes, peep-ing out, now here, now there, from brokenstump or knotted root, joining hand in handin a frolic of joy and mirth. Or it may be thatmemory brings back some rocky dens… … SPRING IN THE GARDEN 137 Few of us, indeed, but can conjure up somesuch remembrance, and though every spring theystill crowd in myriads round our steps in copseand moor and hedgerow, none seem to us quiteso fair as the primroses of the days that are gone.Only on the coal-measures, sometimes, April…

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