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... garden boy at fourteen years of age . He was gardener to Charles Darwin , the famous English naturalist and biologist , for thirty years , but when the old professor retired , he had to leave and entered upon a well - earned rest . But ...
... garden boy at fourteen years of age . He was gardener to Charles Darwin , the famous English naturalist and biologist , for thirty years , but when the old professor retired , he had to leave and entered upon a well - earned rest . But ...
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... gardener's task to study and culti- vate other birds . In the garden of my choice - and no one ever wrote of gardens without a mental picture of one gar- den , and only one - I counted twenty - three species : wood pigeon , thrush ...
... gardener's task to study and culti- vate other birds . In the garden of my choice - and no one ever wrote of gardens without a mental picture of one gar- den , and only one - I counted twenty - three species : wood pigeon , thrush ...
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... garden in his lady's face ; but garden flowers at one period supplied an inordinate number of lovers ' similes . Roses and lilies have been worked to death in this reference . Never- theless , the romantic garden does not suggest to ...
... garden in his lady's face ; but garden flowers at one period supplied an inordinate number of lovers ' similes . Roses and lilies have been worked to death in this reference . Never- theless , the romantic garden does not suggest to ...
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