id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 22837 Mitford, Mary Russell The Lost Dahlia .txt text/plain 4027 143 66 From the day when, a tiny damsel of some four years old, I first had a glory of my little garden was a dahlia called the Phoebus. in the leaves, like that coloured-lamp of a flower, the Oriental Poppy. Every dahlia fancier who came into our garden or who had an opportunity has hardly produced one perfect bloom, even in the hands of but this year we had followed the one perfect system of labels of be suspected of harbouring the good Dahlia Phoebus. other day of a _serious_ dahlia grower who had called his We were even shown a bloom called the Phoebus, about as like to our as Dodd's Mary, with a long bloom stalk like those good old flowers, could be, who had lost such a flower as the Phoebus. happens, famous for their collections of dahlias--Strathfield-saye, the comforter of human afflictions, and the poor Phoebus seemed as likely to ./cache/22837.txt ./txt/22837.txt