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Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant…

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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months…
The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was!…
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today…
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a…
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for…
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set…
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes…
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of…
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still…

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