Old Time Gardens 



By ALICE MORSE EARLE 



Author of " Child Life in Colonial Days," " Home Life in Colonial Days," and 

 " Stage Coach and Tavern Days " 



New Edition, Illustrated, i2mo, $2.ja 



The new and attractively prepared edition of Alice Morse Earle's 0/d Time 

 Gardens, a volume which enjoyed great popularity some years ago, but which has 

 been recently out of print, will be welcomed by all lovers of literature and of flowers. 

 In a book of nearly five hundred pages, profusely illustrated with reproductions 

 of photographs, the author deals with such subjects as Colonial Garden Making, 

 Front Door-Yards, Box Edgings, The Herb Garden, In Lilac Tide, Old Flower 

 Favorites, Gardens of the Poets, Childhood in a Garden, Garden Furnishings, 

 Flowers of Mystery and Roses of Yesterday. The illustrations alone are a delight. 

 They show famous old gardens, beautiful examples of flowers that have been 

 popular and of which now little is heard, and queer old-time garden prints of sun 

 dials, garden walks and garden furnishings. 



" No more suggestive book on gardening can be found." — Independent. 



" It is a delight from cover to cover and is just the kind of a garden book that 

 every flower lover and garden maker likes to ponder upon and have close at hand." 



— The Craftsman. 



" There may be more books about English gardens than about American, but 

 there is no more charming flower chat to be found anywhere than in this leisurely 

 essay. Full of quaint lore, illustrated by delightful pictures of ancient gardens, 

 here is a book to read through and then to keep within reach." 



— Countryside Magazine. 



" Of the many attractive garden books on the market, this, by reason of its 

 excellence, must have a place in the first rank. . . . The book is * crammed full 

 of poetic garden stuff.' It is a fluent tale, yet as practical as it is romantic." 



— Chicago Evening Post. 



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