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Ornamental Gardening for Americans. 



PART I. 

 INTRO D U CTORY. 



CHAPTER I. 

 INTRODUCTION. 



GLAKCES AT THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. 



The art of Ornamental Gardening is, undoubtedly, 

 backward in America at the present time. Progress is 

 more apparent in some other arts ; for example, those of 

 arcliitecture and interior decoration. There is nothing 

 strange in this, however; our nation is comparatively 

 young, and whatever is closely related to the useful 

 arts, has had opj^ortunities to develop, which ornamental 

 gardening, painting, and other arts have not enjoyed. 

 House building has received great attention from the 

 first, and it is natural that, as prosperity increases, a love 

 for the beautiful should manifest itself in this sooner 

 than in the more independent fine arts. Neither is it 

 strange that gardening, and other arts of this class, in 

 America should contrast unfavorably with the same in 

 some European countries, for long before the birth of our 

 nation these arts have had abroad a comparatively ^ree 

 field in which to advance. 



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