THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



no mean part of his equipment; they are as 

 necessary to his best gardening as the dictionary 

 to his best EngHsh. 



What a daily, hourly, unfailing wonder are the 

 modern opportunities and facilities by which we 

 are surrounded ! If the present reader and the 

 present writer, and maybe a few others, will but 

 respond to them worthily, who knows but we 

 may ourselves live to see, and to see as demo- 

 cratically common as telephones and electric 

 cars, the American garden ? Of course there is 

 ever and ever so much more to be said about 

 it, and the present writer is not at all weary; 

 but he hears his reader's clock telling the hour 

 and feels very sure it is correct. 



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