Andersen's fairy tales

Adjoining the rich estate was a lovely and beautifully kept garden of rare trees and flowers. Guests at the estate enjoyed this fine garden and praised it. People from the countryside all round about and townspeople as well would come every Sunday and holiday to ask if they might see the garden. Even whole schools made excursions to it. Just outside the fence that separated the garden from a country lane, there grew a very large thistle. It was so unusually big with such ...