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The joy of gardens (1911)

McCauley, Lena May. [from old catalog] · Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally and company · leaf 58

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If the jonquils peeping from flower baskets and nod-ding in the hands of passers-by could speak, we mightlearn of a land where spring is come. We should hear ofacres of bloom far to the south, of billows of gold thatwe may see with that inward eye that is the blissof solitude; and then, still in… … WHEN SPRING AWAKES 29 joy it is! How does it happen that we have forgottenjonquils, daffodils, narcissus poeticus1? Out with thegarden plan, and put them down along by the lilacs in theturf at the fence corner, and set out a hundred and morebulbs at the proper time. Underline it well, and swearto…

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