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It is evidently the design of the author of this charming book to lure little girls into delving in the brown earth, raising flowers, healthy appetites, and rosy cheeks.

This volume will prove invaluable to older people also, because Miss Duncan takes nothing for granted in the matter of horticultural knowledge and gives all those little details which amateur gardeners so sadly need.

“Mary’s” garden experience starts with January, and runs through the whole twelve months.

For winter there is window-gardening; in spring there is seed-planting. Later, Mary is initiated into the mysteries of setting out a hedge, pruning, budding, rose-growing, the transplanting of perennials, the setting out of bulbs, and many other interesting and delightful phases of flowerdom, Many drawings illuminate the text.



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