ILLUSTRATIONS 



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" 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" 148 



"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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