Saturday, July 24, 2010

Name of UK children's books including country called Aquilegia?

These are from about 50 years ago. Children went through (not over) a wall into another parallel country called Aquilegia

Name of UK children's books including country called Aquilegia?
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Reply:Aquilegia is the name of a plant.
Reply:Are you reffering to the book "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett?





Aquilegia are the flowers growing in the secret garden..





"They looked at the pictures in the gardening books and


Dickon knew all the flowers by their country names and knew


exactly which ones were already growing in the secret garden.





"I couldna' say that there name," he said, pointing to one


under which was written "Aquilegia,"
Reply:Aquilegia is a plant sometimes called Grannys bonnets


I can find no reference to it in books other than as a plant


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