The Gardener (ballad)

The Gardener is Child ballad 219 (Roud 339);[1] the collection includes several variants, many fragmentary.

Synopsis

A gardener woos a lady, proposing to dress her in various flowers. She rejects him with a suggestion that he wear snow and other wintry weather.

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