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TABLETS

by

A. BRONSON ALCOTT

"For curious method expect none, essays for the most part
not being placed as at a feast, but placing themselves as at
an ordinary."
_Thomas Fuller._







Boston
Roberts Brothers
1868.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
A. Bronson Alcott,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Electrotyped and Printed by
Alfred Mudge & Son,
No. 34 School St., Boston.




CONTENTS.


  BOOK I.--PRACTICAL.

  I. THE GARDEN.                                PAGE.

    1 Antiquity                                    5

    2 Ornaments                                   11

    3 Pleasures                                   14

    4 Orchard                                     20

    5 Sweet Herbs                                 25

    6 Table Plants                                28

    7 Rations                                     36

    8 Economies                                   41

    9 Rural Culture                               48


  II. RECREATION.

    1 The Fountains                               59

    2 The Cheap Physician                         65


 