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But, the reader will say, where is the lily-pond ? You 

 have told us about your lawn with its stream and old mill- 

 pond, but where are your lilies ? Well, I answer, do not be 

 in a hurry. I assure you if I had not selected and arranged 

 my lawn and water properties as I did, the lilies I might 

 have set out would have been of much less account than 

 they are. Remember the lilies on my former place. In 







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truth, without some of the characteristics of my present 

 lawn the proper setting for the clustering water-lily gems 

 would have been absent. And think what a setting they 

 had now great poplars, drooping willows, alders, waving 

 grasses, purple irises, purple marsh-mallows growing on prom- 

 ontories of a brimming river backed by a sloping bank of 

 rich greensward. In the coves, chiefly, of my stream and 

 pond were set my lily-jewels. The bottom of the water 



