ao AMERICAN HOME 
HERE is no reason in the world for belie 
their European antecedents, no reason at 
In speaking of the New World’s earl 
this to say apropos of the beginning of 
found in these stern men than that the 
among the fibres of their rugged hearts, 
making them hereditary in the new land.” That was tl 
den whose day extended to Hawthorne’s own time. \ 
garden into the American landscape as somewhat ‘‘new- 
flower beds and borders a jumble of lovely growing 
of bloom in what we call the Italian gardens; and tl 
adopted from English gardens have, perhaps, not com 
A few years ago we were paying little or no attentio 
a fine one; now all that is different. Every one of us w 
ing much as Emerson discovered it, when he wrote of wh 
bordering Walden Pond. ‘‘I go thither every afternoo1 
all along the bold shore and open the finest pictures.” 
scholar should shun it like gambling, and take refuge in 
never did; nosensible man ever will! There isa delight 
for it. A delight that has takena firm hold on American 
