Children and gardens (1908) (14592362327)

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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and quantities of the sweet WildThyme and the pretty little Mouse-ear Hawkweedand white Bedstraw, and the small Milkwort. Nearlyalways where this pretty little plant grows it bearsflowers of three colours; each colour on a differentplant. So it does here, for in one patch the flowers arelight blue, in another pink, and in another white. Ilove the lawn just before it has to be mowed, for whenthis is done the cruel machine cuts off all the sweetlittle flowers ; the only patch of Thyme that escapesgrows just at the top of some steps, out of the way ofthe machine. This year there was a new lawn incident—a patchof the curious Dodder. It looks like a sort of badly-made pink cobweb of no particular pattern ; just pinkthreads crossing and tangling, and odd little stiff, tight,waxy flowers without stalks—nothing else—no leaves,only pinkish threads and flowers. It is one of thosecurious plants called parasites that do not grow honestlyin the ground, but, like vegetable vampires, suck the
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