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My garden (1920)

Wilder, Louise (Beebe), Mrs · Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 134

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n its integrity. Wcseldom have a diseased plant in our garden, and oursecret is simply to give them plenty of sun and air, a richsoil, and to treat them as biennials. Old plants aremuch more apt to have the disease, and Hollyhocks areso easily raised from seed that to keep up a stock ofyoung ones… … HOLLYHOCKS ABE AMONG THE MOST PICTORIAL OF PLANTS, AND IT ISVEHT DIFFICULT TO FIND ANYTHING ELSE TO TAKE THEIH PLACE. I LIKEBEST THE SINGLE ONES IN PINK AND BLACKISH CRIMSON, PALE YELLOW ANDPI3BE WHITE, BUT THE DOUBLE ONES ABE VERY PINE AND OPULENT, ANDTHE LOVELY SHADES AND TINTS TO BE HAD VERY…

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