ILLUS TR ATI ON S 



" That gardening is best . . . which best ministers to man's felicity 



with least disturbance of nature's freedom" .... Frontispiece 



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"... that suddenly falling wooded and broken ground where Mill 



River loiters through Paradise" 6 



On this green of the dryads . . . lies My Own Acre " 



"The beautiful mill-pond behind its high dam keeps the river full 



back to the rapids just above My Own Acre " 12 



"A fountain . . . where one, or two, can sit and hear it whisper " 22 



"The bringing of the grove out on the lawn and the pushing of 

 the lawn in under the grove was one of the early tasks of My 

 Own Acre" 24 



" Souvenir trees had from time to time been planted on the lawn 



by visiting friends" 26 



"How the words were said which some of the planters spoke" . 28 



" ' Where are you going ? ' says the eye. ' Come and see,' says the 



roaming line " 34 



" The lane is open to view from end to end. It has two deep bays 



on the side nearest the lawn" 36 



"... until the house itself seems as naturally ... to grow up out 

 of the garden as the high keynote rises at the end of a lady's 

 song" , 48 



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