{"product_id":"2940013522091","title":"Mary's Meadow \u0026 Other Tales Of Fields \u0026 Flowers","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARY'S MEADOW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLETTERS FROM A LITTLE GARDEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGARDEN LORE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSUNFLOWERS AND A RUSHLIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDANDELION CLOCKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE TRINITY FLOWER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLADDERS TO HEAVEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARY'S MEADOW.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"MARY'S MEADOW\" first appeared in the numbers of _Aunt Judy's\u003cbr\u003eMagazine_ from November 1883 to March 1884. It was the last serial\u003cbr\u003estory which Mrs. EWING wrote, and I believe the subject of it arose\u003cbr\u003efrom the fact that in 1883, after having spent several years in moving\u003cbr\u003efrom place to place, she went to live at Villa Ponente, Taunton, where\u003cbr\u003eshe had a settled home with a garden, and was able to revert to the\u003cbr\u003epractical cultivation of flowers, which had been one of the favourite\u003cbr\u003epursuits of her girlhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Game of the Earthly Paradise was received with great delight by\u003cbr\u003ethe readers of the story; one family of children adopted the word\u003cbr\u003e\"Mary-meadowing\" to describe the work which they did towards\u003cbr\u003ebeautifying hedges and bare places; and my sister received many\u003cbr\u003eletters of inquiry about the various plants mentioned in her tale.\u003cbr\u003eThese she answered in the correspondence columns of the Magazine, and\u003cbr\u003ein July 1884 it was suggested that a \"Parkinson Society\" should be\u003cbr\u003eformed, whose objects were \"to search out and cultivate old garden\u003cbr\u003eflowers which have become scarce; to exchange seeds and plants; to\u003cbr\u003eplant waste places with hardy flowers; to circulate books on gardening\u003cbr\u003eamongst the Members;\" and further, \"to try to prevent the\u003cbr\u003eextermination of rare wild flowers, as well as of garden treasures.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReports of the Society, with correspondence on the exchanges of plants\u003cbr\u003eand books, and quaint local names of flowers, were given in the\u003cbr\u003eMagazine until it was brought to a close after Mrs. EWING'S death; but\u003cbr\u003eI am glad to say that the Society existed for some years under the\u003cbr\u003emanagement of the founder, Miss ALICE SARGANT, and when she was\u003cbr\u003eobliged to relinquish the work it was merged in the \"Selborne\u003cbr\u003eSociety,\" which aims at the preservation of rare species of animals as\u003cbr\u003ewell as plants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Letters from a Little Garden\" were published in _Aunt Judy's\u003cbr\u003eMagazine_ between November 1884 and February 1885, and as they, as\u003cbr\u003ewell as \"Mary's Meadow,\" were due to the interest which my sister was\u003cbr\u003etaking in the tending of her own Earthly Paradise,--they are inserted\u003cbr\u003ein this volume, although they were left unfinished when the writer was\u003cbr\u003ecalled away to be\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \"Fast in Thy Paradise, where no flower can wither!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHORATIA K.F. EDEN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_December, 1895._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *       *       *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOTE.--If any readers of \"Mary's Meadow\" have been as completely\u003cbr\u003epuzzled as the writer was by the title of John Parkinson's old book,\u003cbr\u003eit may interest them to know that the question has been raised and\u003cbr\u003eanswered in _Notes and Queries_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI first saw the _Paradisi in sole Paradisus terrestris_ at Kew, some\u003cbr\u003eyears ago, and was much bewitched by its quaint charm. I grieve to say\u003cbr\u003ethat I do not possess it; but an old friend and florist--the Rev. H.T.\u003cbr\u003eEllacombe--was good enough to lend me his copy for reference, and to\u003cbr\u003ehim I wrote for the meaning of the title. But his scholarship, and\u003cbr\u003ethat of other learned friends, was quite at fault. My old friend's\u003cbr\u003eyouthful energies (he will permit me to say that he is ninety-four)\u003cbr\u003ewere not satisfied to rust in ignorance, and he wrote to _Notes and\u003cbr\u003eQueries_ on the subject, and has been twice answered. It is an absurd\u003cbr\u003eplay upon words, after the fashion of John Parkinson's day. Paradise,\u003cbr\u003eas _Aunt Judy's_ readers may know, is originally an Eastern word,\u003cbr\u003emeaning a park, or pleasure-ground. I am ashamed to say that the\u003cbr\u003eknowledge of this fact did not help me to the pun. _Paradisi in sole\u003cbr\u003eParadisus terrestris_ means Park--in--son's Earthly Paradise!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ.H.E., _February 1884._","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079641612528,"sku":"2940013522091","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013522091_p0.jpg?v=1763593359","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013522091","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}