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 



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 



1. The ornamental burdock. 



