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The happy garden (1912)

Ansell, Mary · London, New York [etc.] Cassell & co., ltd. · leaf 94

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red in the facebecause^^they are so tall. Mark the bees in the lily-trumpets and themonkshood, and the larkspurs. Each labourer, eachday, sips the honey of only one flower. The beeflits from larkspur to larkspur, never from larkspurto Canterbury bell, etc. Each cells honey must bepure, and perhaps… … The carved stone urn on the lawn, bougKt in Venice Cherry Walk and Lawn them. And I would, but for M. Maeterlinck, whohas made me sentimental about them for everand ever! Arbutus and Rhus cotinoides make a fineshrubby background for the flowers, which growhere as thickly as they choose : violas,…

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