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tion ; while for landscape gardening the best 

 school is natural scenery. 



There are many good and helpful books worth 

 careful reading among which may be mentioned : 

 Kemp's How to Lay out a Garden, Milner's Land- 

 scape Gardening, Blomfield's Formal Garden in 

 England, Ed. Andre's great work L'Art des Jar dins, 

 Mawson's Art and Craft of Garden Making, and 

 from the historical side The History of Gardening 

 in England by the Hon. Alicia Amherst. The 

 standard work on Japanese gardens is by J. 

 Conder. Many other books might be mentioned, 

 but the above I have found the most interesting 

 from the design point of view, and I make my 

 acknowledgments to the authors who have in 

 any way assisted me in the art of Garden Design. 



M. AGAR. 



AMERSHAM COMMON, 

 BUCKS, 



June, 1911. 



