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Delightful descriptions and characterizations enliven this tale of an old-time gardener in an English countryside garden and his love of plants. With tender mentoring and the luck of winning a prize at the flower show, young Herbert becomes what he had dreamed of. This is the amusing story of an awkward orphan child with one leg a bit longer than the other who rises from unremarkable school-boy days spent picking wild-flowers and dodging angry farmers...
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Si un libro es "como un jardín que se lleva en el bolsillo", éste hace realidad como ningún otro ese proverbio árabe, pues recrea la historia de uno fértil, armonioso y encantador, un verdadero vergel: narcisos, orquídeas, crisantemos, dalias y campanillas azules brotan de sus páginas, cultivadas con mano maestra por el inefable jardinero Herbert Pinnegar.
El protagonista de esta maravillosa novela fue un niño solitario que siempre mostró...
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