| "That gardening is best … which best ministers to man's |
| felicity with least disturbance of nature's freedom" | Frontis |
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| " … that suddenly falling wooded and broken ground where Mill |
| River loiters through Paradise" | 6 |
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| "On this green of the dryads … lies My Own Acre" | 8 |
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| "The beautiful mill-pond behind its high dam keeps the river full |
| back to the rapids just above My Own Acre" | 12 |
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| "A fountain … where one—or two—can sit and hear it whisper" | 22 |
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| "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 |
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| "Souvenir trees had from time to time been planted on the lawn |
| by visiting friends" | 26 |
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| "How the words were said which some of the planters spoke" | 28 |
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| "'Where are you going?' says the eye. 'Come and see,' says the |
| roaming line" | 34 |
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| "The lane is open to view from end to end. It has two deep bays |
| on the side nearest the lawn" | 36 |
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| " … 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 |
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| "Beautiful results may be got on smallest grounds" | 52 |
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| "Muffle your architectural angles in foliage and bloom" | 52 |
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| Fences masked by shrubbery | 64 |
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| After the first frost annual plantings cease to be attractive | 72 |
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| Shrubbery versus annuals | 72 |
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| Shrubs are better than annuals for masking right angles. South |
| Hall, Williston Seminary | 74 |
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| " … a line of shrubbery swinging in and out in strong, graceful |
| undulations" | 74 |
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| "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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| "Plant it where it will best enjoy itself" | 86 |
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| " … climaxes to be got by superiority of stature, by darkness and breadth |
| of foliage and by splendor of bloom belong at its far end" | 94 |
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| "Some clear disclosure of charm still remote may beckon and lure" | 96 |
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| " … tall, rectangular, three-story piles … full of windows all of |
| one size, pigeon-house style" | 100 |
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| "You can make gardening a concerted public movement" | 112 |
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| "Plant on all your lot's boundaries, plant out the foundation-lines |
| of all its buildings" | 122 |
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| "Not chiefly to reward the highest art in gardening, but to procure |
| its widest and most general dissemination" | 122 |
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| "Having wages bigger than their bodily wants, and having spiritual |
| wants numerous and elastic enough to use up the surplus" | 138 |
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| "One such competing garden was so beautiful last year that strangers |
| driving by stopped and asked leave to dismount and enjoy a nearer view" | 138 |
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| "Beauty can be called into life about the most unpretentious domicile" | 148 |
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| "Those who pay no one to die, plant or prune for them" | 148 |
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| "In New Orleans the home is bounded by its fences, not by its |
| doors—so they clothe them with shrubberies and vines" | 174 |
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| "The lawn … lies clean-breasted, green-breasted, from one |
| shrub-and-flower-planted side to the other, along and across" | 174 |
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| "There eight distinct encumbrances narrow the sward. … In a |
| half-day's work, the fair scene might be enhanced in lovely |
| dignity by the elimination of these excesses" | 176 |
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| "The rear walk … follows the dwelling's ground contour with |
| business precision—being a business path" | 178 |
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| "Thus may he wonderfully extenuate, even … where it does not |
| conceal, the house's architectural faults" | 180 |
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| " … a lovely stage scene without a hint of the stage's unreality" | 182 |
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| "Back of the building-line the fences … generally more |
| than head-high … are sure to be draped" | 184 |
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| " … from the autumn side of Christmas to the summer side of Easter" | 184 |
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| "The sleeping beauty of the garden's unlost configuration … keeping |
| a winter's share of its feminine grace and softness" | 186 |
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| "It is only there that I see anything so stalwart as a pine or so rigid |
| as a spruce" | 192 |
