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of gardening must not forget to give patient study to 

 the files of these magazines. 



For the student or reader wlio is thoroughly 

 enthused with the spirit of landscape study, and espe- 

 cially if one is studying the subject for the sake of his 

 own personal pleasure in it rather than for the immedi- 

 ate good he may derive in planting shrubs, there is 

 another considerable field of literature which he will do 

 well to explore to the full extent of his opportunities. 

 These are the essays and books whicli, under one name 

 and another, deal with the beauties of rural life and are 

 filled with the atmosphere of woods, lakes and moun- 

 tains. Merely as examples of such we may remember 

 John Burroughs (of whose books Winter Sunshine 

 should be named first in this connection), the essays of 

 Donald G. Mitchell (Ik. Marvel), tlie diaries of Thoreau, 

 and Charles Dudley Warner's Summer in a Garden. It 

 would have been a pleasure to tlie writer to include 

 a bibliograpliy of these books in this chai^ter; but as 

 that cannot be done, the reader will depend on libra- 

 rians and book dealers who everywhere know and prize 

 these books. 



In the following much abridged list of books on 

 landscape gardening only tliose are included which are 

 of the most direct value to the beginner. By the time 

 he has thoroughly studied these his horizon will have 

 been so far enlarged that he can select his reading for 

 himself better than anyone can do it for him. 



EUROPEAN BOOKS. 



Amherst, Alicia, History of Gardening in Eng- 

 land, London, 1885. A very complete and satisfying 

 treatise on the subject. 



Andre, Edouard, L'Art des Jardins, 1879. The 

 most complete and thoroughly useful work on this sub- 

 ject in any language. Finely illustrated. 



