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 "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" 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 



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