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Old Time Gardens

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OLD-TIME GARDENS

Newly set forth
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A L I C E   M O R S E   E A R L E

A BOOK OF
T H E   S W E E T   O'    T H E    Y E A R

"Life is sweet, brother! There's day and night, brother!both sweet things: sun, moon and stars, brother! allsweet things: There is likewise a wind on the heath."

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NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON MACMILLAN & CO ltd
MCMII

All rights reserved


Copyright, 1901,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped November, 1901. Reprinted December,1901; January, 1902.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.


dedication

[Pg vii]

Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
I.Colonial Garden-making1
II.Front Dooryards38
III.Varied Gardens Fair54
IV.Box Edgings91
V.The Herb Garden107
VI. In Lilac Tide132
VII.Old Flower Favorites161
VIII....

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