item: #1 of 13 id: 14859 author: Garis, Howard Roger title: Daddy Takes Us to the Garden The Daddy Series for Little Folks date: None words: 35185 flesch: 96 summary: Some of you have met Hal and Mab Blake before, on one or more of their many trips with Daddy, so I do not need to tell all of you about the children. Daddy Blake did have a package in his arms, and he was smiling. keywords: air; aunt; beans; best; better; big; birds; blake; book; bottle; box; boy; boys; brother; brown; bugs; cabbage; cake; carrots; celery; chapter; children; cloth; corn; course; cows; crops; cucumber; cut; daddy; daddy blake; day; days; dirt; dog; dollar; door; dry; early; earth; eyes; fall; farmer; father; fence; fine; fly; fun; game; garden; girl; gold; good; grass; great; green; ground; hail; hal; hard; help; hill; hoe; home; hope; house; inside; jacket; kind; large; leaves; left; life; like; little; lolly; long; look; lot; mab; making; man; mole; money; morning; mother; mother blake; motor; mrs; near; need; new; nice; ones; paper; peas; pennywait; pick; piece; plants; play; poison; poly; poodle; porter; potatoes; prize; pumpkin; queer; rain; ready; red; right; roly; roots; rows; sammie; school; scouts; seeds; set; small; soil; spring; stalks; start; store; street; summer; sun; things; time; tiny; tomatoes; uncle; vegetables; vines; warm; water; way; wet; white; winter; wonder; work; worms; yard; yellow cache: 14859.txt plain text: 14859.txt item: #2 of 13 id: 17396 author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson title: The Secret Garden date: None words: 83413 flesch: 94 summary: His face looked dreadful, white and red and swollen, and he was gasping and choking; but savage little Mary did not care an atom. I shall not want to go poking about, said sour little Mary; and just as suddenly as she had begun to be rather sorry for Mr. Archibald Craven she began to cease to be sorry and to think he was unpleasant enough to deserve all that had happened to him. keywords: afraid; afternoon; air; angry; answer; ayah; aye; bad; beautiful; bed; beginning; ben; best; better; big; birds; bit; black; blue; body; books; boy; branches; breakfast; breath; bright; bush; bushes; care; carriage; chair; chapter; cheeks; child; children; close; colin; color; comfortable; coming; contrary; corner; corridor; cottage; course; craven; creatures; cross; crying; curious; dark; day; days; dead; deal; deep; dickon; die; different; doctor; door; dream; earth; eggs; end; excited; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; far; father; feeling; feet; fine; fire; flowers; fond; food; fox; fresh; frightened; funny; garden; girl; glad; goin'; good; grass; gray; great; green; grow; half; hand; happy; hard; head; heart; high; hole; home; hot; house; hungry; ill; india; inside; interested; ivy; jump; key; kind; lad; lamb; late; laughing; leaves; left; legs; lennox; lie; life; like; listening; little; live; locked; long; look; looking; lot; lovely; low; lump; magic; making; man; manor; martha; mary; master; medlock; mind; minutes; misselthwaite; mistress mary; moment; moor; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; mun; mysterious; native; near; nest; new; nice; night; nothin'; nurse; old; ones; open; outside; pale; people; person; picture; place; plain; play; pleased; poor; pretty; push; queer; questions; quiet; rain; rajah; read; real; red; rest; robin; room; roses; rough; round; run; running; safe; secret; seeds; servants; set; shut; sir; sitting; skip; sky; sleep; small; smile; sofa; soft; song; soot; sorry; sort; sounds; sour; sowerby; spade; spread; springtime; stairs; standing; startled; stay; stop; strange; strong; sun; sure; susan; talk; tea; tha; tha'll; tha'rt; thee; thick; things; thinking; thought; time; tiny; tired; tree; turning; voice; walk; wall; want; warm; way; ways; weatherstaff; white; wide; wild; wind; window; wish; woman; wonder; wonderful; wondering; wood; words; work; working; world; years; yorkshire; young cache: 17396.txt plain text: 17396.txt item: #3 of 13 id: 19408 author: Cable, George Washington title: The Amateur Garden date: None words: 37630 flesch: 69 summary: On these two sides the limits touch other gardens, and all four sides are entirely without fencing. Please observe that of great gardens, or of costly gardens whether great or only costly, we here say nothing. keywords: acre; advice; air; alley; amateur; american; american garden; angles; annuals; architectural; art; artistic; bad; bare; beautiful; beauty; bed; beds; beginning; best; better; bit; bloom; blue; books; border; boundaries; boundary; breadth; broad; building; bush; business; capital; care; carnegie; certain; charm; children; city; civilization; clear; close; college; common; company; competition; competitors; concerted; concrete; conditions; contest; contour; corner; cost; cottage; course; curve; daily; day; dear; delight; democracy; dignity; district; door; dream; drive; dry; dwelling; earlier; early; edge; effect; elm; end; england; entire; evergreen; example; eye; fact; fair; fall; family; far; farther; faults; feature; feet; fence; fish; floral; flowering; flowers; foliage; foot; formal; fourth; freedom; friend; garden; gardener; gardening; general; going; good; government; grace; grass; great; green; ground; grove; growth; half; hand; happy; hard; head; help; high; higher; highest; home; hope; house; householder; human; hundreds; illustration; individual; institute; interest; joy; keeping; kind; know; labor; lady; landscape; large; lawn; leaf; left; length; level; lies; life; like; line; little; long; longer; look; lot; lovely; main; making; man; matter; mere; middle; mill; mind; mistakes; modest; money; movement; mower; natural; nature; near; need; neighbors; new; northampton; northern; note; number; old; open; ordinary; orleans; ownership; page; paths; people; picture; piece; pink; place; plant; planting; play; pleasant; pleasing; pleasure; point; pool; poor; possible; practical; present; private; private garden; prizes; professional; public; purple; ravine; reader; real; rear; red; results; right; river; room; rose; rule; scale; scheme; season; second; set; shade; shows; shrubberies; shrubbery; shrubs; sides; single; sir; size; small; smith; social; soil; song; sort; souvenir; spiritual; spot; spring; spruce; square; stage; stature; steps; story; straight; street; strong; summer; sun; sward; sweet; tall; telling; things; thought; thousands; time; town; trees; true; utility; value; view; wages; walk; walls; wants; water; way; white; wide; wild; windows; winter; wire; word; work; worthy; writer; yard; year; yellow; young; youth cache: 19408.txt plain text: 19408.txt item: #4 of 13 id: 28524 author: Warner, Susan title: Nobody date: None words: 160569 flesch: 91 summary: The village was at the south end of the island, as Miss Lois said. I_ call weeds, who know no better--but Miss Lois tried to make me see the beauty of the sumach and all the rest of it. keywords: accustomed; action; advantage; afraid; afternoon; agreeable; air; amused; amusement; angel; answer; appledore; apples; armadale; attention; aunt; away; bad; barclay; bare; basket; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; believe; best; better; bible; big; bit; black; blue; board; bonnet; book; boy; bread; breakfast; breath; brilliant; broken; brother; brown; burrage; burst; business; busy; calm; care; carpet; cart; caruthers; case; certain; chair; chance; chapter; character; charity; cheeks; children; christian; christmas; church; city; clams; clear; coffee; cold; colour; comfortable; coming; common; companion; company; content; conversation; cook; corner; cost; country; course; creature; cup; curiosity; curious; danger; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; delicate; delicious; delighted; delightful; different; difficult; dignity; dillwyn; dinner; dishes; distance; dollars; don; door; doubt; dozen; drawing; dress; dressed; drew; drive; dry; duty; eager; early; earnest; earth; easy; education; effect; elder; elegant; england; english; enjoyment; evening; excellent; experience; expression; eyes; face; fact; fair; fall; family; fancy; far; fashion; father; features; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; fine; fingers; fire; fish; fit; floor; florida; flowers; flushed; folks; following; fond; food; fool; foot; form; free; french; fresh; friend; fruit; fun; game; garden; gay; general; gentleman; george; girl; glad; glance; glass; god; going; gold; good; graceful; grandma; grandmother; grave; gravity; great; green; grey; habit; half; hand; handsome; happiness; happy; hard; harm; hat; head; heart; heaven; heavy; help; high; hold; home; honest; honour; hope; horses; hotel; hour; house; human; husband; hymn; idea; instance; interest; islands; isles; journey; judge; julia; kind; kitchen; knitting; know; knowledge; ladies; lady; large; late; laughing; leave; left; lenox; let; level; life; like; likely; line; lips; little; live; living; lois; long; longer; look; looking; lord; lost; lothrop; love; lovely; luncheon; luxury; madge; magnificent; making; mamma; man; manner; march; married; marx; matter; mean; men; mental; middle; midgin; mind; minute; miss; mistaken; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; mud; music; natural; nature; near; nearer; neat; necessary; need; new; news; nice; nonsense; nothin'; o'clock; object; occasion; ocean; odd; old; open; opinion; opportunity; order; pardon; particular; parties; party; pass; past; peas; people; person; philip; picture; place; plain; plans; play; playing; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; plenty; poetry; point; poor; position; possible; potatoes; power; present; pretty; promise; pure; purpose; putting; queer; question; quick; quiet; rain; rare; rate; reading; ready; real; reason; refined; regular; religion; religious; respectable; rest; rich; ridiculous; right; river; rocks; room; rose; rough; round; run; safe; salt; santa; satisfied; saying; school; sea; seat; second; seeing; seelye; self; sense; servants; service; set; shampuashuh; shoals; shore; shoulders; sick; silence; silent; silk; silver; simple; simplicity; singing; sister; sitting; sky; sleigh; slight; slow; small; smile; smooth; snow; society; soft; sorry; sort; soul; speech; spirit; spring; stairs; stand; standing; state; stay; steps; stones; stop; story; straight; strange; street; strength; strong; study; stuff; stupid; style; subject; sudden; summer; sun; sunday; supper; surprise; sweet; switzerland; table; talk; talking; taste; tea; tears; terrible; thank; thick; things; thinking; thought; thy; time; tired; tom; tone; touch; town; trees; trouble; true; truth; turn; turning; uncle; useful; usual; vain; variety; view; village; visit; voice; wait; waiting; walk; wall; want; warm; water; waves; way; ways; weather; week; wet; white; wide; wife; wild; wind; windows; wine; winter; wise; wishart; woman; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; worth; wrong; year; york; young cache: 28524.txt plain text: 28524.txt item: #5 of 13 id: 31265 author: Otis, James title: Aunt Hannah and Seth date: None words: 22715 flesch: 78 summary: It's the only home I ever knew, an' my heart would be wellnigh broken if I lost it! Before she had ceased speaking Seth was flinging rug after rug on the burning oil, for Aunt Hannah, like many another woman living in the country, had an ample supply of such floor coverings. It was not until Aunt Hannah had concluded that Seth appeared to understand he was the boy referred to, and then he asked excitedly: Do you suppose the Seth Barrows told about there can be me? Of course, my dear. keywords: advertisement; arms; attention; aunt; aunt hannah; bad; barn; bed; better; big; boy; breakfast; cakes; certain; chance; child; city; close; conversation; country; course; cow; day; dean; dear; dog; door; end; eyes; face; farm; fear; feller; fellow; fire; flight; floor; friends; goin'; good; great; half; hand; hannah; head; heart; home; hope; hour; house; kind; kitchen; lad; law; leave; left; life; like; little; little woman; long; looking; master; mean; mighty; milk; mind; moment; money; morning; mrs; near; necessary; need; new; night; officers; old; open; pip; place; possible; ready; reason; reply; room; round; run; seth; sleep; small; smith; snip; snippey; stay; story; street; surprise; symonds; table; task; teddy; thought; time; tone; way; white; woman; words; work; world; york cache: 31265.txt plain text: 31265.txt item: #6 of 13 id: 34885 author: Northend, Mary Harrod title: Garden Ornaments date: None words: 31919 flesch: 74 summary: [Illustration: THE MOSS GROWS BETWEEN THE STONE WALK] The color scheme depends on garden planting. Cost is not the only thing to be taken into consideration when creating garden effects. keywords: account; advantage; advisable; appropriate; arch; artistic; attractive; away; background; bath; beautiful; beauty; beds; best; better; bird; bit; bloom; blossoming; blossoms; blue; border; box; brick; brilliant; bulbs; care; careful; cement; center; central; century; chapter; charm; clusters; colonial; color; colored; coloring; combination; concrete; consideration; contrast; cost; country; covered; covering; crimson; culture; dainty; dark; day; days; decorative; deep; delicate; delightful; demands; design; desirable; different; distinctive; double; early; earth; effective; effects; elaborate; england; english; entrance; existence; expensive; eye; fall; fashioned; feature; feet; fine; fit; flowering; flowers; foliage; formal; formal garden; foundation; fountain; fragrant; free; furniture; garden; garden culture; garden path; garden seat; general; good; graceful; grass; gray; great; green; ground; grower; growth; half; hand; hardy; heart; heavy; height; high; home; house; idea; illustration; important; inches; interesting; introduction; iris; iron; italian; kind; landscape; large; late; lavender; leaves; life; like; lily; line; little; long; lovers; making; marble; mass; material; matter; months; moss; narrow; necessary; need; new; note; old; ones; open; ornamental; particular; path; people; pergola; picturesque; picturesqueness; pink; place; placing; planting; plants; plenty; plot; pond; pool; popular; possible; posts; practical; proper; pure; purple; purpose; red; results; rich; right; roof; rose; rustic; scarlet; scheme; season; seats; setting; shade; showing; simple; single; situation; size; small; snow; soft; soil; special; spring; stately; steps; stone; strong; successful; suitable; summer; sun; sundial; surface; surroundings; sweet; tea; thought; time; touch; treatment; trees; twentieth; type; use; varieties; variety; view; vines; walk; water; way; white; white flowers; wide; winter; wonderful; wood; wooden; work; world; year; yellow cache: 34885.txt plain text: 34885.txt item: #7 of 13 id: 34893 author: Shelton, Louise title: Beautiful Gardens in America date: None words: 23370 flesch: 67 summary: These gardens are just simple, lovable little places filled with shadows and sunshine, some flowers, and the good scent of Box, which latter always seems so especially essential to old gardens. At present some of the finest places in Georgia are delightfully located outside of the larger towns, and many gardens, some new and others renewed after a half-century of oblivion, adorn the home grounds of those who are so fortunate as to reside here at the most favored seasons. keywords: accompanying; ago; american; annuals; april; art; author; autumn; background; baltimore; barbara; beals; beautiful; beauty; beds; best; bloom; book; boxwood; broad; brookline; cal; california; centre; certain; charles; charming; chestnut; city; climate; climatic; co.; coast; color; conditions; conn; continuous; copyright; cottage; country; court; covering; crest; daffodils; days; degrees; delightful; design; distant; earlier; early; east; england; english; esq; evergreen; fact; fairlawn; famous; farm; favored; fertile; fine; flowering; flowers; formal; formal garden; frost; garden; gardening; george; german; glen; good; grass; great; green; growth; half; hamilton; hardy; heat; hedge; hewitt; high; hill; hollyhocks; home; house; hudson; idea; illustration; iris; island; j. mrs; james; jersey; jessie; johnston; july; june; known; lake; large; later; latitude; lenox; life; like; little; live; long; lovely; maine; manor; march; mass; middle; miles; miss; morristown; mrs; n. j.; near; need; new; newport; north; northern; noted; number; numerous; ohio; old; open; owner; page; park; paths; perennials; perfect; period; philadelphia; phlox; photograph; picturesque; places; planting; plants; plate; pool; portland; present; region; rich; river; rock; roses; santa; scheme; sea; season; section; september; setting; shore; shrubs; similar; simplicity; soil; south; southampton; southern; space; splendid; spot; spring; state; stone; summer; sunshine; sweet; tacoma; tarbox; temperature; tender; time; trees; tulips; tuxedo; type; valley; variety; view; weeks; west; white; wild; william; winter; wonderful; work; world; years; york cache: 34893.txt plain text: 34893.txt item: #8 of 13 id: 36872 author: Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman) title: Making a Rose Garden date: None words: 8944 flesch: 73 summary: A vital principle in feeding rose plants is one that seems to be overlooked instinctively by seven out of ten amateur gardeners. _White Grub_ An underground enemy that feeds on the roots of rose plants. keywords: amateur; bark; beauty; beds; best; better; bloom; book; brier; bud; budding; buds; bush; care; case; classification; climbing; cuttings; dormant; early; earth; end; fact; feet; flowers; foliage; food; form; garden; general; good; green; ground; groups; growth; half; hybrid; hybrid perpetuals; hybrid teas; illustration; inches; june; lady; large; leaf; leaves; like; liquid; lists; little; location; long; manetti; manure; matter; moss; mrs; need; new; old; order; paths; perpetuals; pests; place; planting; plants; propagation; protection; pruning; roots; rosa; rose; rose garden; rose plants; rough; rugosa; setting; shoot; single; soap; soft; soil; species; spring; stalk; stock; summer; surface; teas; thought; time; upper; use; water; way; white; wichuraiana; winter; wood; year; yellow cache: 36872.txt plain text: 36872.txt item: #9 of 13 id: 38438 author: None title: The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets date: None words: 45990 flesch: 87 summary: To Mr. Clement Wood for Rose-Geranium from _Glad of Earth_. In the Womb, _A. E._, 4. Indian Summer, _ keywords: abbie; alfred; alice; amelia; amy; ancient; angela; antoinette; apple; april; arms; arthur; autumn; baby; beautiful; beauty; bed; bees; big; bird; birth; bliss; bloom; blossom; blow; blowing; blue; boughs; branch; branches; breast; breath; bright; brother; brown; buds; burr; cardinal; care; carman; catherine; charles; charm; child; children; clear; clinton; close; clouds; clover; co.; cold; collected; color; company; conkling; cool; corn; coursey; crimson; daffodils; dark; dat; dawn; day; days; dead; dear; deep; delight; dew; dim; door; dream; dreamland; drops; dusk; dust; early; earth; eden; edgar; edna; edward; edwin; emile; ere; evening; eyes; face; faint; fair; fall; family; far; farwell; fashioned; feel; feet; fenollosa; fields; fill; fine; fire; fireflies; flame; florence; flowers; foster; fountain; fragrance; fragrant; frank; frost; garden; garden wall; garrison; gay; george; gertrude; ghost; glad; glory; god; gods; gold; golden; good; grace; grass; grasses; gray; great; green; growing; guiterman; hair; half; hall; hand; happy; hath; hay; hazard; head; heart; heaven; helen; henry; hidden; high; hill; hold; home; honey; hope; hour; house; huntington; hush; iris; james; jewett; john; johnson; jones; josephine; joy; july; june; katharine; kew; kiss; knows; lady; larkspur; late; laugh; laughter; lavender; leaf; leaves; lee; life; like; lilac; lilies; lily; lips; little; little garden; live; livingston; lizette; london; long; look; lord; lost; louis; love; loveliness; lovely; lowell; man; margaret; markham; mary; mcgiffert; mcneil; meadow; memory; men; message; messrs; meynell; millay; miracle; moon; moonlight; morgan; morning; mother; mrs; music; mystery; near; new; night; nightingale; noon; notes; o'er; oak; old; old garden; open; pale; paradise; pass; path; patterson; peabody; peach; perfect; perfume; petals; pine; pink; place; poems; poppies; power; prayer; preston; pride; purple; queen; quiet; rain; rapture; red; reese; rest; richard; rise; road; robert; room; roots; rose; round; run; russell; sara; scarlet; scent; scollard; scott; sea; secret; seed; set; shade; shadows; shining; silence; silent; silver; singing; skies; sky; sleep; slender; small; snow; soft; soil; song; sorrow; soul; south; spirit; spring; springtime; stairways; stand; stars; stone; stream; strength; strong; sudden; summer; sun; sunshine; sweet; tall; teasdale; tell; tender; thee; theodosia; thine; things; thomas; thou; thought; thy; time; tiny; tis; touch; trees; tulip; turn; twilight; valentine; van; velvet; verhaeren; vincent; vine; violet; voice; walk; wall; walsh; water; watson; way; ways; weary; weed; welcome; wheelock; whisper; white; whiting; wide; wild; wilkinson; william; wind; window; wings; winter; wise; wonder; wood; woodworth; work; world; years; yellow; young cache: 38438.txt plain text: 38438.txt item: #10 of 13 id: 38829 author: Sedding, John Dando title: Garden-Craft Old and New date: None words: 64396 flesch: 67 summary: Following upon the original lines of the Essay on the For and Against of Modern Gardening, I became the more confirmed as to the general rightness of the old ways of applying Art, and of interpreting Nature the more I studied old gardens and the point of view of their makers; until I now appear as advocate of old types of design, which, I am persuaded, are more consonant with the traditions of English life, and more suitable to an English homestead than some now in vogue. Although in old gardens the lower terrace is some 10 ft. below the upper one, this is too deep to suit modern taste; indeed, 5 ft. or 6 ft. will give a better view of the garden if it is to be viewed from the house. keywords: able; account; acres; admirable; admiration; advantage; air; alleys; ancient; antique; appearance; architectural; arrangement; art; artificial; artistic; artists; aspects; author; avenue; bacon; bad; beauties; beautiful; beauty; beds; beneath; bent; best; better; birds; bit; bloom; blossom; blue; book; borders; box; brain; british; brown; building; business; care; case; centuries; century; certain; chance; changes; chapter; character; charming; charms; children; choice; church; civilised; clear; clipt; close; colour; coloured; common; commonplace; complete; conditions; contents; country; course; court; craft; cross; culture; curiosity; curious; cut; dark; date; days; dead; death; deep; delight; delightful; description; design; designer; desirable; desire; details; development; device; different; direction; display; distance; double; dreams; dressed; drive; dutch garden; earlier; early; earth; east; easy; eden; effects; efforts; end; england; english garden; enthusiasm; entrance; essay; evelyn; examples; experience; exposure; expression; extent; eye; eyes; face; fact; fair; faith; fall; false; familiar; fancy; far; fashioned garden; features; feeling; feet; fence; field; figures; fine; fine garden; fir; fit; flat; flower garden; flowers; foliage; following; footnote; foreign; foreign garden; forest; form; formal; formality; fountains; frame; france; free; french; fresh; friend; fruit; garden; garden literature; garden nature; gardener; gardening; general; genius; gentle; geometrical garden; gift; god; golden; good; grace; grand; grass; gravel; great; greatest; green; grey; ground; groves; growth; guild; half; hand; happy; hard; hath; head; heart; hedges; height; help; henry; heroic; high; hills; hold; holland; home; hours; house; human; ideal; ideal garden; idealised; illustration; imagination; importance; increase; individual; influence; instincts; interest; interesting; italian; italy; james; john; joy; judgment; kent; kind; kitchen; kitchen garden; knowledge; known; lake; landscape; large; large garden; lawn; lead; leave; left; level; lie; life; like; lines; list; little; living; long; look; loudon; love; magic; main; making; man; manner; marble; mark; master; materials; matters; means; memories; men; mere; methods; middle; mind; mixed; model; modern; modern garden; moment; moods; moor; morning; mountain; music; narrow; native; natural; nature; nay; near; necessity; need; new; nice; noble; nonsuch; notes; number; objects; office; old english; old garden; open; orchard; order; ordinary; original; ornamental; outline; outside; painting; paradise; park; parterres; particular; parts; passion; past; pastoral; paths; people; perfect; perfection; perspective; phase; picture; picturesque; piece; place; plain; plantations; planting; plants; pleasant; pleasaunce; pleased; pleasure; plot; poetry; poets; point; poor; position; possible; practical; practice; praise; present; pretty; price; primal; principles; proper; public; qualities; quality; question; quiet; rare; real; reason; red; regard; regular; relation; repton; respect; result; rich; right; rise; road; robinson; romance; room; rose; rough; rude; saw; says; scenery; scenes; school; sea; seasons; seats; second; secret; sedding; self; sense; set; shade; shapes; shrubberies; shrubs; simple; simplicity; single; singular; sir; site; situation; size; sketch; skill; sky; slope; small; small garden; smile; smooth; soil; sort; soul; sound; south; space; special; species; specimens; spirit; spot; spring; square; standard; stately; statues; steps; stiff garden; stone; straight; strange; stream; street; study; style; subject; success; suit; summer; sun; sunk; surface; surroundings; sweet; sweetness; sympathy; system; taste; tell; temple; terrace; theory; things; thought; time; tired; touch; traditional garden; treatment; trees; trim; true; truth; turf; turn; type; value; variety; view; villa; visible; walks; wall; walpole; water; way; ways; west; white; wide; wife; wild; wildness; william; wind; windows; winter; wise; wish; wonder; woodland; words; wordsworth; work; workers; world; worthy; writer; writing; wrong; years; yew; yews; young cache: 38829.txt plain text: 38829.txt item: #11 of 13 id: 39049 author: Earle, Alice Morse title: Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth date: None words: 108631 flesch: 75 summary: He stands by a table bearing a vase filled with old garden flowers--Tulip, Convolvulus, Harebell, Rose, Peony, Narcissus, and Flowering Almond; and it is the pleasure of the present mistress of the manor, to see that the garden still holds all the great-grandfather's flowers. Adrian Van der Donck, a gossiping visitor to New Netherland when the little town of New Amsterdam had about a thousand inhabitants, described the fine kitchen gardens, the vegetables and fruits, and gave an interesting list of garden flowers which he found under cultivation by the Dutch vrouws. keywords: = =; a.m.; account; acquaintance; acres; affection; albany; almond; alyssum; ambrosia; america; american garden; ancient; ancient garden; apple; apple trees; appropriate; arbor; arch; arches; aspect; associated; association; attention; author; autumn; avonwood; bachelor; bacon; balm; bank; barn; basil; bearing; beautiful; beautiful flower; beautiful garden; beauty; beds; bee; beehives; bees; bell; beloved; berries; best; bethlehem; birds; bishop; bit; black; bleeding; bloom; blossoming; blossoms; blue; blue flower; blueness; boneset; book; border; boston; botanical; botanists; boundaries; box; branches; break; brick; british; broken; bronze; brother; buds; bulbs; bunch; bush; bushes; business; 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worcester garden; words; work; world; wright; writes; writing; yaddo; yard; years; years old; yellow; yellow garden; york; young; youth; yucca cache: 39049.txt plain text: 39049.txt item: #12 of 13 id: 43127 author: Molesworth, Mrs. title: An Enchanted Garden: Fairy Stories date: None words: 34618 flesch: 90 summary: But so well were the Queen's feelings understood that no one ventured to tell her of these clear signs that little Rose felt herself at home in the land of the snow. With trembling dread the Queen drew away the furs and shawls wrapped round the baby, almost expecting to find her changed in some strange way, perhaps even dead; and it was with thankfulness that she saw that little Rose was still herself--sweet and smiling in her sleep. keywords: afraid; alix; arminel; asleep; baby; basket; beautiful; bed; best; better; bird; bright; brother; caretaker; children; chloe; christmas; clear; close; cold; coming; corner; cottage; country; course; cow; day; days; dear; door; doubt; dwarf; eggs; evening; eyes; face; fairy; far; fast; fear; feeling; fire; flowers; folk; forest; fresh; friend; garden; girl; good; great; half; hand; happy; head; heart; hens; home; hope; house; idea; ila; ivy; jem; joyce; kind; king; kitchen; ladies; lady; land; late; life; like; little; long; looking; love; lovely; mamma; meadows; mermaid; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; near; new; nice; night; norna; nurse; old; orona; people; place; poor; pretty; princess; queen; rafe; ready; red; robin; room; rose; round; saying; sea; sister; small; snow; sort; spirit; stone; stories; story; strange; summer; sure; sweet; tell; things; think; thought; time; tired; trees; true; voice; wall; want; way; white; window; winter; wish; wishes; woman; wood; words; wren; year; young cache: 43127.txt plain text: 43127.txt item: #13 of 13 id: 47688 author: Various title: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 02, February 1900 Japanese Gardens date: None words: 4250 flesch: 53 summary: The Hill Garden class is the more elaborate of the two, and that best adapted for large gardens, and for those where the natural site is undulating, or where money can be spent in artificial grading. In large gardens there may be as many as one hundred and thirty-eight principal rocks and stones, each having its special name and function; but in smaller ones as few as five rocks will often suffice. keywords: accessories; actual; art; artistic; certain; combinations; conventions; design; detail; elaborate; elaboration; features; flat; form; garden; gardener; gardening; hill; ideal; illustration; important; japanese; japanese garden; lake; landscape; lantern; large; like; model; mountain; natural; nature; pine; plate; principal; religious; river; rocks; rules; sand; scale; scene; sea; shapes; site; stepping; stones; style; tea; tree; use; view; water cache: 47688.txt plain text: 47688.txt