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IN THE COUNTRY: Essays by the 



REV. M. G. WATKINS, M.A. 



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DEVON LANES AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS AT THE SEA SIDE 



AMONG THE HEATHER UP GLENROY IN ASSYNT INTO BALLAD 



LAND ON THE OTTERY EAST HILL AMONG THE SEA BIRDS 



FROM THE HEART OF THE WOLDS SUNSHINE AT THE LAND'S END 

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ON THE ART OF GARDENING: 



A PLEA FOR ENGLISH GARDENS OF THE FUTURE, WITH 

 PRACTICAL HINTS FOR PLANTING THEM. 



BY MRS. J. FRANCIS FOSTER. 



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" In this pleasant and original little book the authoress not only enters 

 a vigorus protest against the bedding-out system and the so-called 

 ' natural ' style of gardening, but gives very good practical advice for 

 gardens of a different sort." Gardener's Chronicle. 



" This little book proceeds from a true lover of flowers and will be 

 welcome to all who take an interest in their care and culture." Civilian. 

 " A pleasant and unpretending little volume." Saturday Review. 



" The charm consists in its author's evident love of her subject. Like 

 a true lover she has gone far and wide in her search for old plants and 

 old plant lore. We agree with Mrs. Foster that the most perfect 

 herbaceous border is one that has an old wall behind it. Blue larkspurs 

 and white lilies, roses, phloxes, and evening primroses never look so well 

 as when they are seen against a background of wall, mellowed with age 

 and clothed with its beautiful garment of wall-growing seedlings. . . 

 Mrs. Foster's book, too, is most useful in its lists of flowers that bloomed 

 in the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare. She also devotes one chapter 

 entirely to quotations from old poets on gardens and all the delights that 

 spring from them. If it helps her readers to know for themselves those 

 authors, who found among the flowers of the garden apt similes of all 

 that is truest in human nature, she will have added a very substantial 

 addition to the pleasure already enjoyed by those who love gardens, but 

 yet are unfamiliar with the pages of the poets who knew well how to 

 speak their praises." Spectator. 



" A pleasant book." Athenceum. 



