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Title: The Amateur Garden

Author: George W. Cable

Release Date: September 29, 2006 [EBook #19408]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "That gardening is best ... which best ministers to man's
felicity 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 the
tree was smaller. The dark tree in the foreground on the right is Felix
Adler'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

PAGE

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