Quote #1585 about gardening by Alice Morse Earle
"We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs."by Alice Morse Earle
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