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 ' One such competing garden was so beautiful last year that stran- 

 gers driving by stopped and asked leave to dismount and enjoy 

 a nearer view" 138 



' Beauty can be called into life about the most unpretentious domi- 

 cile" 148 



'Those who pay no one to dig, 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 dig- 

 nity 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 . . . w^here 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 . . . keep- 

 ing a w^inter's share of its feminine grace and softness "... 186 



' It is only there that I see anything so stalw^art as a pine or so rigid 



as a spruce " 192 



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