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The joy of gardens (1911)

McCauley, Lena May. [from old catalog] · Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally and company · leaf 288

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. It was a weedy paradise on either sideof the road, as if human foresight had been bent uponaffairs at home, forgetting that mischief-makers weregathering burs in the public highway to make ready for anonslaught of mischief. How scornfully we speak of those who vegetate! Thusare we guilty of… … ESCAPED FROM GARDENS 189 This notion is a pleasant fiction. The botanist does notromance when he says that they have appropriated vicesas well as virtues; that among them are parasites andthieves; that saints and martyrs of the wronged and help-less of the plant world cry out for mercy, and should…

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