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My garden in spring (1914)

Bowles, Edward Augustus, 1865-1954 · London, T. C. & E. C. Jack · leaf 213

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eyhad disappeared below ground. They formed a fat littlewhite root, but it slept like the Sleeping Beauty, and noprince could be found to wake it. A friend of mine oncedescribed a plant he had seen in Sicily, and I recognisedmy long-desired Mandrake, and railed at him for bringingno roots, so when… … Steps at end of Terrace—with London Bridge balusters. (See p. 235.) March Winds ones, and they came, rather dry in the leaves after theirjourney, but with rich purple flowers still fresh enough toproclaim them as good forms. Only later I learnt thatmy friend, having hunted diligently but in vain,…

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