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Identifier: childrengardens00jeky (find matches)
Title: Children and gardens
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
Subjects: Gardening Children Amusements
Publisher: London, Offices of 'Country life', ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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iJni. THE GOOD PLACE FOR GUDGEONS.
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MY OWN YOUNG DAYS 3 island was a sort of enchanted land. It had somegreat Poplars growing on it, and a tangle of under-growth. Some of this came down and dipped into thewater, and here the moor-hens built and brought outtheir broods of lovely little round black-velvet chicks.On the fringe of the island were the grandest LadyFerns I have ever seen, and in its depths I first foundthe curious plant Twayblade. Where another of the streams, a slower one, cameinto the pond, was a fringe of the beautiful WaterForget-me-not. I never can forget—how could I, whenit is just as keen to this day I—my delight in the pureblue of this sweet little plant, with its clean-lookingbright green leaves, and its faint scent that I used tothink like the small quiet smell of the little wild Pansythat you find in cornfields among the stubble. Just above the pond was a damp meadow, calledthe Nunnery Meadow, where there were quantities ofthe bright yellow Marsh Marigolds that flower in April.I remember the ra

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