Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & co. · leaf 44
panese Hops,Woodbine, and the beautiful and picturesqueWild Cucumber {Echinocystus Lobata), which inJuly nearly smothers everything else and clothesitself in a veil of filmy white flowers in loose clus-ters, fragrant, but never too sweet, always refresh-ing and exquisite. The vines make a… … AN ISLAND GARDEN 19 for me; after that no hands touch it save my ownthroughout the whole season. Day after day itis so pleasant working in the bright cool springair, for as yet the New England spring is alertand brisk in temperature and shows very littlesoftening in its moods. But by the seventh…
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