j6 Outlook to Nature 



home. You will see an English country home 

 of very modest appearance ; you may think it 

 dull or uninteresting, yet somewhere behind 

 the house or against the wall you are almost 

 sure to find a garden, as secluded and as per- 

 sonal and individual as a library or a study. I 

 wish that Americans would make gardens even 

 if there were no hope that people would see 

 them. 



The meaning of home has broadened and 

 deepened very much within a lifetime. To the 

 plainest home of the middle class there have 

 been added a few good pieces of simple and 

 useful furniture, a little collection of' books 

 good at least to look at, simple music, pictures 

 that have some meaning and are not mere wall 

 decorations : may we not now add a garden ? It 

 does not matter how small or how large the 

 garden is. If it is small, it will be condensed 

 and perhaps we shall appreciate it the more. 



The spirit of the garden. 



I step from the house, and at once I am re- 

 leased. I am in a new realm. This realm has 



