The Archive · 1940

She: Nobody

He: Then no wonder you're a good girl. any other plant: they are beautiful in a place apart and we were reminded of the English woods when we saw them. "Tommy" said that they were larger and taller than the ones growing wild in woods: he was quite right about that for the flowers we saw appeared to be Scilla hispanica, whereas the wild bluebell of the English woods is Scilla nonscripta. We notice that one of our favourite dwarf shrubs is beginning to flower: it is well named Deutzia gracilis for its slender arching stems covered with racemes of pure white flowers are indeed graceful. We saw it growing on a mound and it appeared quite at home. We saw one of the hundreds of species of Rubus growing out of a crevice in a rock today, the blackberry fruits here; but we believe that we shall have to pave acne miles inland before we can hope wild wx. Teca see the superior favoured

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