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An island garden (1894)

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & co. · leaf 32

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Englishmarket gardeners that they readily command ashilling apiece. . . . The toad has indeed nosuperior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and ashe possesses no bad habits and is entirely inof-fensive himself, every owner of a garden shouldtreat him with the utmost hospitality. It is quiteworth… … AN ISLAND GARDEN ir Q-Q SO far as to exercise a grcntlc force in brinG:inorhim back to the regions where his services maybe of the greatest utility. One of the most universal pests is the cut-worm, a fat, naked worm of varying lengths. Ihave seen them two inches and a half long and aslarge round as…

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