That gardening is best ... which best ministers to man'sfelicity with least disturbance of nature's freedom."
This is my study. The tree in the middle of the picture is Barrie's elm.I once lifted it between my thumb and finger, but I was younger and thetree was smaller. The dark tree in the foreground on the right is FelixAdler's hemlock. [Page 82]
THE AMATEUR GARDEN
BY
GEORGE W. CABLE
ILLUSTRATED
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK: MCMXIV
Copyright, 1914, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published October, 1914
CONTENTS
| MY OWN ACRE | 1 |
| THE AMERICAN GARDEN | 41 |
| WHERE TO PLANT WHAT | 79 |
| THE COTTAGE GARDENS OF NORTHAMPTON | 107 |
| THE PRIVATE GARDEN'S PUBLIC VALUE | 129 |
| THE MIDWINTER GARDENS OF NEW ORLEANS | 163 |
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" | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |