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INTRODUCTION. 



IT may be said at the present time that in 

 making many books of gardening there is 

 no end, and yet there is always room for another, 

 as one often hears people complain that no book 

 gives them exactly what they want. Some are 

 written by gardeners of so much knowledge and 

 experience that they cannot put themselves in the 

 place of a beginner, and some by those to whom 

 gardening is a new art, and who are ready to teach 

 what they do not thoroughly know. 



Miss Randolph has lived and worked in a garden 

 all her life, under her father, who has made one 

 of the most charming gardens in Kent. She 

 teaches, from her own experience, how to make 

 a garden from the beginning, and how to keep it 

 always beautiful, with the least possible expense, 



