The Amateur Garden. George Washington Cable
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George Washington Cable
The Amateur Garden
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664599735
Table of Contents
THE COTTAGE GARDENS OF NORTHAMPTON
THE PRIVATE GARDEN'S PUBLIC VALUE
THE MIDWINTER GARDENS OF NEW ORLEANS
ILLUSTRATIONS
| "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" |
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