"The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower……" — Alice Morse Earle
"The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower."
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Alice Morse Earle
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30 Quotes by Alice Morse Earle
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed…
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not…
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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a…
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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they…
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to…
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There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the…
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It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and…
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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting…
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