THE POINT OF VIEW 3 
Buist, and a dozen more, each one a little richer because the 
others had been written. But even the fact that all books 
pass into oblivion does not deter another hand from making 
still another venture. 
I expect, then, that every person who reads this book will 
make a garden, or will try to make one; but if only tares grow 
where roses are desired, I must remind the reader that at the 
outset I advised pigweeds. The book, therefore, will suit 
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everybody, — the experienced gardener, because it will be a 
repetition of what he already knows; and the novice, because 
it will apply as well to a garden of burdocks as of onions. 
What a garden is. 
A garden is the personal part of an estate, the area that 
is most intimately associated with the private life of the home. 
Originally, the garden was the area inside the inclosure or lines 
of fortification, in distinction from the unprotected area or 
fields that lay beyond; and this latter area was the particular 
domain of agriculture. This book understands the garden to 
