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The joy of gardens (1911)

McCauley, Lena May. [from old catalog] · Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally and company · leaf 30

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ough the trees, shaking thedoors with ghostly hands—does the wind know that wehave tried to get ahead of nature and have packed the oakleaves thickly above the snowdrops and first hyacinths?Does the Nemesis of a late spring spy the plantlets thatwere struggling to light in the hotbeds a week ago,… … ON WINGS OF HOPE 9 sunshine that flooded the south window life began stir-ring in the seedlings blanketed under the oak leaves. Awhite, furry crosier is uplifted by the hepatica, a fernholds out a coil of green, and an acorn has turned overon its side to reach toward the light the tender pinksprout…

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