The Rescue of an Old Place 



New Eng- 

 land loves 

 flowers as 

 well as Old 

 England. 



If, with its ungrateful soil and torment- 

 ing climate, New England cannot rival 

 Old England in the gay surroundings of 

 its cottage doors, the same love of flowers 

 is there, finding such expression as it may, 

 under the cruel conditions of a sterile 

 earth, and burning summer heats and dry- 

 ness, alternated with sharp east winds, 

 which make a labor as well as a pleasure 

 of a garden. 



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