[Mary’s Meadow by Juliana Horatia Ewing]@TWC D-Link bookMary’s Meadow CHAPTER V 8/11
Bessy's aunt despised them too, and she said the double ones were only fit for a cottage garden.
I laughed so much that I tore the canary-coloured string as I was gumming it on to the bonnet, to think how I could tell her now that cowslips are Queen's flowers, the common ones as well as the Hose-in-Hose. Then I looked out the Honeysuckle, it was page 404, and there were no pictures.
I began at the beginning of the chapter; this was it, and it was as funnily spelt as the preface, but I could read it. "Chap.
cv._Periclymemum_.
Honeysuckles. "The Honisucle that groweth wilde in euery hedge, although it be very sweete, yet doe I not bring it into my garden, but let it rest in his owne place, to serue their senses that trauell by it, or haue no garden." I had got so far when James came in.
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