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The Shuttle

CHAPTER XXI
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There's shade for things that wants it, and south aspects for things that won't grow without the warmth of 'em.

Well, I've gone about many a day when I was low down in my mind and worked myself up to being cheerful by just planning where I could put things and what they'd look like.

Liliums, now, I could grow them in masses from June to October." He was becoming excited, like a war horse scenting battle from afar, and forgot himself.

"The Lilium Giganteum--I don't know whether you've ever seen one, miss--but if you did, it'd almost take your breath away.

A Lilium that grows twelve feet high and more, and has a flower like a great snow-white trumpet, and the scent pouring out of it so that it floats for yards.


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