THE-ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN 



AND HOME GROUNDS. Design and 

 Arrangement followed by a Description 

 of the Plants, Shrubs and Trees for the 

 Open-air Garden and their Culture, by 

 W. ROBINSON, Author of "The Wild 



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Garden/' Illustrated with many Engrav- 

 ings on Wood. Thirteenth Edition. 



"Laying out grounds, as it is called, may be considered as a liberal art, in some 

 sort like poetry and painting ; and its object, like that of all the liberal arts, is, or ought 

 to be, to move the affections under the control of good sense. If this be so when we 

 are merely putting together words or colours, how much more ought the feeling to 

 prevail when we are in the midst of the realities of things ; of the beauty and harmony, 

 of the joy and happiness of living creatures ; of men and children, of birds and beasts, 

 of hill and streams, and trees and flowers, with the changes of night and day, evening 

 and morning, summer and winter, and all their unwearied actions and energies." 

 WORDSWORTH. 



New York 

 Charles Scribner's Sons, 597-599 Fifth Avenue 



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