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 shrubbery64

After the first frost annual plantings cease to be attractive72

Shrubbery versus annuals72

Shrubs are better than annuals for masking right angles. South

Hall, Williston Seminary74

" ... 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

"Plant it where it will best enjoy itself"86

" ... 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

"Some clear disclosure of charm still remote may beckon and lure"96

" ... tall, rectangular, three-story piles ... full of windows all of

one size, pigeon-house style"100

"You can make gardening a concerted public movement"112

"Plant on all your lot's boundaries, plant out the foundation-lines

of all its buildings"122

"Not chiefly to reward the highest art in gardening, but to procure

its widest and most general dissemination"122

"Having wages bigger than their bodily wants, and having spiritual

wants numerous and elastic enough to use up the surplus"138

"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

"Beauty can be called into life about the most unpretentious domicile"148

"Those who pay no one to die, plant or prune for them"148

"In New Orleans the home is bounded by its fences, not by its

doors—so they clothe them with shrubberies and vines"174

"The lawn ... lies clean-breasted, green-breasted, from one

shrub-and-flower-planted side to the other, along and across"174

"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

"The rear walk ... follows the dwelling's ground contour with

business precision—being a business path"178

"Thus may he wonderfully extenuate, even ... where it does not

conceal, the house's architectural faults"180

" ... a lovely stage scene without a hint of the stage's unreality"182

"Back of the building-line the fences ... generally more

than head-high ... are sure to be draped"184

" ... from the autumn side of Christmas to the summer side of Easter"184

"The sleeping beauty of the garden's unlost configuration ... keeping

a winter's share of its feminine grace and softness"186

"It is only there that I see anything so stalwart as a pine or so rigid

as a spruce"192