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An island garden (1894)

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & co. · leaf 108

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I may call it so, has come upon the littlegarden, in the shape of the delicious edible mush-rooms, Coprinus Comatus, which come up all overthe place and with slow strength heave the 6S AN ISLAND GARDEN ground and my flowers into heaps, thrustinghandsome long ivory-white, umbrella-shaped headson… … UCH thought should be given tothe gardens arrangement with regardto economy of room, where one hasDut a small space to devote to it. And whereone is unfamiliar with the habits of growth of thevarious plants that are to people it, a difficultyarises in making them effective and so dispos-ing them…

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