THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



no mean part of his equipment; they are as 

 necessary to his best gardening as the dictionary 

 to his best English. 



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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