Its garden, too, glowed with flowers: hollyhocks had sprung up tall as trees, lilies had opened, tulips and roses were in bloom; the borders of the little beds were gay with pink thrift and crimson double daisies; the sweetbriars gave out, morning and evening, their scent of spice and apples; and these fragrant treasures were all useless for most of the inmates of Lowood, except to furnish now and then a handful of herbs and blossoms to put in a coffin.
Crecían en el jardín las plantas de malva altas como árboles; se abrían las lilas; rosas y tulipanes estaban en capullo y se multiplicaban las margaritas. Pero toda aquella riqueza de color y perfume no aliviaba la suerte de las pupilas de Lowood: sólo servía para engalanar las tapas de sus ataúdes.