The+Gardener

=**The Gardener**= == anxious, retire, sprucing, recognizing, vacant, adore
 * Vocabulary**

In //The Gardener,// the main character, Lydia Grace finds out that people who live in bigger cities plant flowers in window boxes. Here are some examples of window boxes.



In larger cities, people do not have a large yards to dry their clothes on a clothes line. In //The Gardener//, you see illustrations showing what people do instead. They hang clothes lines between the apartment buildings. It is a simple machine called a pulley that allows them to move the rope close to their windows to put the clothes on and take them off of the line. Here are some pictures of clothes lines and pulleys.



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