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       George Washington Cable

      The Amateur Garden

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664599735

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       MY OWN ACRE

       THE AMERICAN GARDEN

       WHERE TO PLANT WHAT

       THE COTTAGE GARDENS OF NORTHAMPTON

       THE PRIVATE GARDEN'S PUBLIC VALUE

       THE MIDWINTER GARDENS OF NEW ORLEANS

       Table of Contents

"That gardening is best … which best ministers to man's
felicity with least disturbance of nature's freedom" Frontis
" … that suddenly falling wooded and broken ground where Mill
River loiters through Paradise" 6
"On this green of the dryads … lies My Own Acre" 8
"The beautiful mill-pond behind its high dam keeps the river full
back to the rapids just above My Own Acre" 12
"A fountain … where one—or two—can sit and hear it whisper" 22
"The bringing of the grove out on the lawn and the pushing of the lawn
in under the grove was one of the early tasks of My Own Acre" 24
"Souvenir trees had from time to time been planted on the lawn
by visiting friends" 26
"How the words were said which some of the planters spoke" 28
"'Where are you going?' says the eye. 'Come and see,' says the
roaming line" 34
"The lane is open to view from end to end. It has two deep bays
on the side nearest the lawn" 36
" … until the house itself seems as naturally … to grow up out of the
garden as the high keynote rises at the end of a lady's song" 48
"Beautiful results may be got on smallest grounds" 52
"Muffle your architectural angles in foliage and bloom" 52
Fences masked by shrubbery 64
After the first frost annual plantings cease to be attractive 72
Shrubbery versus annuals 72
Shrubs are better than annuals for masking right angles. South
Hall, Williston Seminary 74
" … a line of shrubbery swinging in and out in strong, graceful
undulations" 74
"However enraptured of wild nature you may be, you do and must
require of her some subserviency about your own dwelling" 84
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