Gardens for Children
The Nursery Hospital
Linens, light, air, and patience with time
William Vincent Carleton
A nursery, this fifth Gardens for Children book says, is a hospital for beginnings. Like the old hospitals, plants ask for linens, sunlight, airflow, food and rest. Ada becomes the nurse of the sill, tagging each jar and making a daily round of who was watered, who is yellow and who needs turning toward the light. It also shows how mint, basil and willow cuttings root in water, with a grown hand helping the blade.
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