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from nature and demonsti-ating different styles of planting suitable for different 

 situations and locations as they may be actually seen. By this means more 

 than by any other it is felt that a true conception of the possibilities of the 

 water garden can be obtained, and prominence has therefore been given to 

 photographic views in the following pages. 



In conclusion I must acknowledge my indebtedness to ^Ir. Leonard Barron, 

 Editor of American Gardening, for having prepared for press the MSS. of the 

 entire book. 



If this effort add in an}' way to the better appreciation of the beauties of 

 the Water Garden and its charming occupants; if it lead but a few towards 

 that great pleasure and satisfaction which has been mine after years of ex- 

 periment and trial, the labor of production will not have been in vain. 



W. T. 



" It is neither wise, nor tender, nor loving, to remit to otliers, 

 however expert, the supreme care of one's garden. You will tend 

 yours with your own hands, and discover its needs with your 

 own heart; and If, in doing so, you have to withdraw yourselves 

 sometimes, more than accords with modern wont, Into rural 

 seclusion, your social instincts will not thereby be starved, nor 

 your share in the graces and charities of life thereby be curtailed. 

 You will find much resemblance between flowers and human 

 beings, for they too grow reserved under coldness or maltreat- 

 ment, and respond with almost feminine alacrity to everj' 

 sympathetic endeavor to appreliend them." 



