THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



The picture is submitted to your imagination 

 not as it looked the day we ceased planting, but 

 as we expected it to appear after a season or 

 two, and as it does look now. 



At present, rather tardily, we have begun 

 to introduce herbaceous flowering perennials, 

 which we ignored in the first part of our plan, 

 because herbaceous plants are the flesh and 

 blood and garments of a complete living and 

 breathing garden; the walls, shrubs, trees, walks 

 and drives are its bones. When this secondary 

 phase has been more fully realized and we have 

 placed bush-clumps and tree-clumps out on the 

 open campus, and when our hundreds of cottage 

 gardens are shaking off the prison irons of frost, 

 we hope, if you cannot do us the honor to be 

 with us bodily, your spirit may be near, aiding 

 us on in the conquest of this ever beautiful 

 WTiere-to-Plant-What problem, which I believe 

 would make us a finer and happier nation if it 

 could be expanded to national proportions. 



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