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The joy of gardens (1911)

McCauley, Lena May. [from old catalog] · Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally and company · leaf 200

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eyellow fields, calliopsis and coreopsis have grown to luxu-riant bushy heights, each tip bearing its flowers like aChristmas tree with gilt stars. On the ground below, theCalifornia poppies, eschscholtzia—the Golden West—weave a tapestry of lovely color, a strain of June sun-shine at break of day,… … A CARNIVAL OF GOLD 129 joyous that none can turn back their message of faith tothe soul. The yellow sprite repeats its scheme beyond a mistycloud of gypsophila, in a lowlier mass of calendulasstocky and sturdy, varying the yellows from pale lemonto copper; and as in music the melody will flow on…

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