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Garden Prelude

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The other lilac

We’re pretty pleased in mid-May by our lilacs: the one is mauve, the other gentle red; and both of them have grown and put forth blossoms and sweet perfume we savor from our bed. And next block east an apple … Continue reading

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anonymous

I knew the two pots of perriwinkle— narrow suspicious leaves, shy purple blossoms— but the rest of the greenhouse specimens were really strangers to me; I didn’t know a mauve one from a red one, nor a geranium from a … Continue reading

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