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Mr. Lomber looked at the information and drawings for a short while. “Sorry, nothing with those names listed  here.   
  It says here that  in those days and  up until the early 1900s, there were mostly fruits and
vegetables growing in the garden, more of them than flowers. Ah, here—it says that there was a  fine pumpkin patch next to a plum tree, and some cranberries, and—well, the writing is a bit  smudged here, but it looks like ,  maybe, no, I can’t read it. Anyway, this is the way the garden looked in the past. See, here is the pumpkin patch, and this mark is where a plum tree stood next  to the pumpkins. Here are the cranberries. And I think..... yes, there are some other berry bushes there too.”

“May we see that, please Mr. Lomber?” Aaron asked.

The four children looked at the pictures.

 

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“We still do not know exactly whether this is the way  the garden looked at the time of Captain Patch . But  it  says that the garden did look like this before l850. There doesn’t seem to be anything about Silver Bells  and Cockle Shells and Little Maids.”

 
“This is really puzzling,” David said.“We got as far as 75 paces, and we don’t know which direction in the garden we must walk for the  next 25 paces. If there were Silver Bells or those other flowers we would walk in the direction of where they were planted."

“ Yuk,” said Carrie in a grumpy voice. “ It said to start with Mistress Mary and her garden, but it didn’t say we’d get stuck there.”

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