New England bygones . 138 ^J^W EXGLAND BYGONES. ragged garden-wall, and lilies and ran Iiot incorners. She hail her hachelors and , and a ^t t)t other common , crowded againstbeets and carrots and wherever .she could get a chancefor them. They Ian parallel on both sides with the broad,middle o;arden-walk, flanked the edixes of side-beds, and facedtheir outermost })aths with a fringe of sweetness. Coming u[)two-leaved and tiny, they had a hard tight against my grand-fathers and Jonathans hoes; but thev throve nevertheless, andri
New England bygones . 138 ^J^W EXGLAND BYGONES. ragged garden-wall, and lilies and ran Iiot incorners. She hail her hachelors and , and a ^t t)t other common , crowded againstbeets and carrots and wherever .she could get a chancefor them. They Ian parallel on both sides with the broad,middle o;arden-walk, flanked the edixes of side-beds, and facedtheir outermost })aths with a fringe of sweetness. Coming u[)two-leaved and tiny, they had a hard tight against my grand-fathers and Jonathans hoes; but thev throve nevertheless, andripened into the bloom and fragrance of the garden. Lilac-bnshes straggled about unpruned, and were troublesomelyprolific. Fortv rears ago thev stood compactly by tlie doorstepsand under the windows of most well-to-do-farmers houses, fromtheir touo-hness and briuhtness fit countrv shrubs. The m-ateful,abundant thing took kindly to any earth, to any location, climb-ing out of shade into sunshine, spreading rapidlv in bri
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