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somebody help him with advice ? That some one was 

 Gertrude Jekyll. Little plants of mossy and silvery 

 Saxifrages and a few small bulbs were sent him, also 

 some stones, for this was to be a rock-garden. It had 

 two hills of diflFerent heights, with rocky tops, and a 

 longish valley, with a sunny and a shady side, all in a 

 box that measured three feet by ten inches ! 



Imagine the delight of the factory child when he saw 

 the milk-white of the modest Snowdrop and the brilliant 

 blue of the early Squill as they came up, jewel bright, in 

 the grey, soot-laden atmosphere of the smoky town ! 

 The boy's happy letters showed that, in his childish way, 

 he shared the rapture of the poet. 



"The simplest flower that blows can give 

 Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears/' 



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