A little girl's visit to a country garden

Agnes Marshall lived with her papa and mamma in a tall dark house in a narrow street of Manchester. Her papa was busy all day long with the workmen in his mills and the goods -in his warehouse, and her mamma was often ill, so they never could leave the town. Poor Agnes had never been in the country. She had seen nothing but streets, and houses, and churches, and cotton-mills. She had seen pictures of pretty flowers, and had a pot of lank mignionette on the window-sill, and sometimes mamma had sent to flue market for a bunch of flowers; but they always looked pale and sickly, for, like the children of the town, they wanted fresh air. But at last mamma took Agnes on a visit to the country, to sec a most beautiful garden. It was full of the rarest flowers; for the owner was a rich man, and loved flowers. ...