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SPRING 
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in it, and began by putting the “ hose-in-hose ” 
among the cowslips; but I will not tell you 
more of the story, as I hope some day you 
may read the book. 
The best way to get a lot of primroses is to 
raise them from seed—the small seedlings soon 
bear an abundance of bloom ; but if any plant 
by Mrs. Ewing called Marys Meadoiv. The 
little children in that tale learnt all about the old 
book on gardens, Parkinson’s Earthly Paradise 
(.Paradisus in Sole , by John Parkinson, 1629), 
and tried to make a meadow near their home 
into a “ Paradise ” by planting garden flowers 
A MASS OF PRIMROSES AND POLYANTHUS 
