Identifier: wildflowerswhere00harr ( find matches)
Title: Wild flowers and where they grow
Year: 1882 ( 1880s)
Authors: Harris, Amanda Bartlett, 1824- Humphrey, Lizbeth Bullock, b. 1841
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: Boston : D. Lothrop and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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RIGHT IX THE MIDST OF THE FIE-TCLEARING.
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A PILGRIM DAUGHTER THE GROUND-NUTS. 27 so. No strictness of training or objection to personal adorn-ment could overcome a womans love of flowers. And sure we may be that the tenderly tinted, sweet-lippedarbutus blossomed on Rose Standishs grave, made so soonamong the knolls where the hill slopes to the sea. THE GROUND-NUTS. Close by that sunny nook in the swamp were knolls, crowdedwith the pretty things that flourish in rich leaf-mould. Therewas a little of every thing, like the evergreen blackberry vine,partridge-berry and checkerberry ; all in unfading green, comingout fresh, moist and glossy from their chill bath of meltedsnow. And all the sod was shot through and through withgoldthread. You could not turn up a morsel of it withoutlaying bare those shining threads. And there were little hummocks full of ground-nuts. Notthe genuine ones flavored like cocoanut, but of an humblersort. Very good, however, we young people thought them,and by no means to be disparaged now that we have gr

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