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The charm of gardens (1910)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. & C. Black · leaf 51

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aglowwith Buttercups, then a wide triangular field, with apit in the corner of it, snowed over with Daisies, andthen a farm looking like a toy place, neat with whitepainted railings, and a dovecote, and a long barn coveredover with yellow Stone Crop. I could see—all inminiature—the farmer come out… … FIELDS A little further down, and cut off partly from viewby the May tree that sheltered me, was a village, whiteand grey, sheltered by Elm trees. In the midst of thehandful of cottages the square-towered flint churchstood with Ivy on the tower and dark Yews in thechurchyard. The graves in the…

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