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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Mat, 1912 



PETER and 

 POLLY 



By Elizabeth Hays Wilkinson 



Photographs by Cornelia Clarke 



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 How the Chicken Gets Inside 



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 Some Other Sorts of Eggs 

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 Hon Much of Us is Alive 

 How We Grow 



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