ILLUSTRATIONS 



Faclnii Pa^e 

 ' One such competing garden was so beautiful last year that stran- 

 gers driving by stopped and asked leave to dismount and enjoy 



a nearer view 



138 



" Beauty can be called into life about the most unpretentious domi- 

 cile " ^^ 



'Those who pay no one to dig, plant or prune for them" ... 148 



'In New Orleans the home is bounded by its fences, not by its 



doors— so they clothe them with shrubberies and vines" . . 174 



'The lawn . . . lies clean-breasted, green-breasted, from one shrub- 



and-flower-planted side to the other, along and across" ... 174 



" There eight distinct encumbrances narrow the sward. ... In a half- 

 day's work, the fair scene might be enhanced in lovely dig- 

 nity by the elimination of these excesses" 176 



"The rear walk . . . follows the dwelling's ground contour with 



business precision — being a business path" 178 



"Thus may he wonderfully extenuate, even . . . where it does not 



conceal, the house's architectural faults" 180 



" . . . a lovely stage scene without a hint of the stage's unreality " 182 



" Back of the building-line the fences . . . generally more than head- 

 high . . . are sure to be draped" 184 



". . . from the autumn side of Christmas to the summer side of 



Easter" 184 



"The sleeping beauty of the garden's unlost configuration . . . keep- 

 ing a winter's share of its feminine grace and softness "... 186 



" It is only there that I see anything so stalwart as a pine or so rigid 



as a spruce" 192 



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