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CHAPTER XL INDOOR GARDENS 107 



The "fun" of having the best fruit, fresh vegetables all winter, and flowers 

 the year round The pleasures of collecting A cheap greenhouse at 

 last. 



CHAPTER XII. COLLECTING, AND MAKING NEW VARIETIES . . 119 



The sort of work that Luther Burbank does with flowers is commonly done 

 in England by amateurs Let us collect every variety of our favourite 

 flower and then improve it. 



CHAPTER XIII. GARDEN CITIES 131 



We can build small, new cities that are practically perfect, without philan- 

 thropic aid, simply by cooperation And these cities may revolutionize 

 the old ones. 



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CHAPTER XIV. ENGLISH EFFECTS WITH HARDY CONIFERS, OR 



NARROW-LEAVED EVERGREENS 145 



What equivalents can we have for yews a thousand years old, cedars of 

 Lebanon planted by returned crusaders, and "big trees" that grow a hun- 

 dred feet in sixty years? 



CHAPTER XV. ENGLISH EFFECTS WITH BROAD-LEAVED EVER- 

 GREENS 159 



We may get only three-fourths of the English luxuriance, but we can beat 

 England on variety Seven effects we can have and four we cannot. 



CHAPTER XVI. ENGLISH EFFECTS WITH HARDY TREES . . . 181 



The two false gods we worship, Speed and Show Our mania for ab- 

 normally quick and gaudy trees must give way to an enthusiasm for per- 

 manence and fitness. 



CHAPTER XVII. WHAT AMERICA CAN TEACH ENGLAND ABOUT 



SHRUBS 195 



The only important material (except water lilies) in which we have a 

 striking climatic advantage over England Why we have ignored our 

 opportunity and have even started on a false scent. 



CHAPTER XVIII. ENGLISH EFFECTS WITH HARDY CLIMBERS . 209 

 The fine art of decorating good architecture and transmuting the bad, 

 marrying vines to trees, and throwing a veil or mist over evergreen shrubs 

 like rhododendrons. 



CHAPTER XIX. ENGLISH EFFECTS WITH HARDY PERENNIALS . 227 



Making pictures with perennial flowers Bold pictures on lawns Deli- 

 cate, misty, airy pictures Moonlight pictures Wild garden and water- 

 side pictures Pictures containing life. 



CHAPTER XX. ENGLISH EFFECTS WITH ALPINE FLOWERS . . 243 



Rock gardening a universal passion in England and may become so 

 here Most of the showiest flowers easy to grow even without rocks. 



