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My garden (1920)

Wilder, Louise (Beebe), Mrs · Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 198

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n the genus Irismay be divided into four sections: Pogoniris or Bearded,Apogon or Beardless, Evansia or Crested, and Bxilbous.The beard is a collection of closely set hairs on thefalls or drooping petals of the Iris flower. Iriseswithout this decoration are called beardless. Thecrest is an elevated… … Will Sf^/^o WHEN ONE SEES THE HAINBOW BANNERS OP THE IBIS UNPTTKLING ALONGTHE BORDERS IN THE SUNSHINE IT SEEMS HIGHLY PROBABLE THAT THEMANTLE OF THEIR NAMESAKE HAS FALLEN UPON THEM, AND IT SEEMS WELLTO INCLINE ones EAR AND OPEN WIDE ONEs EYES LEST WE MISS SOMESMALLEST SHADE OF MEANING IN THIS…

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