Longwood Gardens
Hustle and bustle, grab your ticket, scan your ticket
Squish into line, this-a-way, that-a-way, flora flora flora
{Like PEANUTS, GET YOUR PEANUTS! 2 FER 1!}
The map shows you one thing and reality another
Geography 101, “Note: map not drawn to scale”
Welcome to Longwood Gardens of Kennett Square
This is Chester County, Mushroom Capital of the World
{More than one MILLION pounds of mushrooms harvested
every single week in this very place, founded in 1682!!!}
Brandywine Creek Valley, the Christina River
P-E-N-N-S-Y-L-V-A-N-I-A, north of the Mason-Dixon
Ever heard of Pierre S. du Pont? Think chemicals
He liked this land and now it's a tree/flower/bush circus
Not intimate like Maymont or Southern like Lewis Ginter
or quiet and contained like the U.S. National Arboretum
But I'm showing my bias; a conservatory is a conservatory,
pretty pretty pretty and funded by rich woodland enthusiasts
Can't complain about the geese or the Italian fountains
only nod in appreciation and harness thoughts of VA
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