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The joy of gardens (1911)

McCauley, Lena May. [from old catalog] · Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally and company · leaf 206

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The neighbors always stopped to look over the whitephlox into the wilderness at the clumps of gillyflowersand pinks getting along in harmony where hollyhocks blos-somed in increasing numbers every year, and the Johnny-jump-ups traveled in endless procession in and out amongthem all. Every one knew… … A GARDEN AT WINNETKA, ILLINOIS FRIENDSHIP OF FLOWERS 133 gate to spade and hoe in an inclosure always in bloom.They never touch a thing, said a gossip. They letthem grow wild, and I d give a basket of eggs for a slipof that climbing rose. The city person marveled at a garden that in ten—nay,in…

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