December, 1911 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



The Readers' Service is prepared to 

 advise parents in regard to schools 



199 



What England Can Teach 

 Us About Gardening 



By Wilhelm Miller, Ph. D. 



THIS is a book by Dr. Miller, Horticultural 

 Editor of Country Life in America, which 

 lays for the first time the foundations of 

 an American style of gardening. 



Dr. Miller went abroad with the object of 

 studying the English gardens, the most beauti- 

 ful things of their kind in the world, and in this 

 volume he has embodied those principles and 

 suggestions which are applicable to Ameri- 

 can conditions. 



What it has taken England hundreds of years 

 to learn we can profit by; and the immense 

 value of this book over previous works is that 

 it recognizes the futility of literal copying and 

 advocates a devotion to the spirit of English 

 gardening rather than to the materials. 



We believe that an acceptance of Dr. Miller's 

 principles, both of adoption and rejection, will 

 put us hundreds of years ahead in the art of 

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Airerican people have about reached the end of the 

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 and more every year it is clear that the only way to make 

 the land pay is by intensive cultivation. You will secure 

 yourself against profitless labor and make your high- 

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 growing fruit — the product of the soil that pays best. 



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Giant Himalaya Berry is a new fruit, from central Asia, 

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