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THE CHRONICLES OF A GARDEN. 



more to say on this subject wlien I come to write of flowers ; 

 but even now I may say that more enjoyment is often 

 derived from a profusion of common shrubs than from a 

 scanty supply of rare ones, to say nothing of the pleasure 

 of being thus able to provide friends with nosegays, un- 

 grudgingly cut. 



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