The Confessions of a Garden Adventurer 



ROBIN HOOD'S 

 BARN 



By 



MARGARET EMERSON BAILEY 



WITH PEN AND INK DRAWINGS BT 



WHITMAN BAILEY 



The garden to which Miss Bailey admits us 

 in these delightful pages is as much a state of 

 mind as an actual bit of earth. Her material 

 garden lies on the border line of Rhode 

 Mand and Massachusetts and one end of it is 

 washed by the sea that works all sorts of 

 wonders among the salt marsh fringes. But 

 it is not only of wild life and her flowers that 

 she evokes a vivid sense. No less real is the 

 spirit of place so strong in her pages* 



The reader is a favored friend who passes the 

 barrier of her close and finds a cool house 

 where one may ^piijil of the world and his 



wife and look out upon an old-fashioned 

 garden. Black and white drawings add much 

 to the charm of this book. 



