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[Illustration: "That gardening is best... which best ministers to man's
felicity with least disturbance of nature's freedom."

This is my study. The tree in the middle of the picture is Barrie's elm.
I once lifted it between my thumb and finger, but I was younger and the
tree was smaller. The dark tree in the foreground on the right is Felix
Adler's hemlock. [Page 82]]




THE AMATEUR GARDEN

BY

GEORGE W. CABLE


ILLUSTRATED


CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

NEW YORK: MCMXIV

_Copyright, 1914, by_

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

_Published October, 1914_




  CONTENTS


                                                                    PAGE

  MY OWN ACRE                                                          1

  THE AMERICAN GARDEN                                                 41

  WHERE TO PLANT WHAT                                                 79

  THE COTTAGE GARDENS OF NORTHAMPTON                                 107

  THE PRIVATE GARDEN'S PUBLIC VALUE                                  129

  THE MIDWINTER GARDENS OF NEW ORLEANS                               163



  ILLUSTRATIONS

  "That gardening is best... which best ministers to man's
       felicity with least disturbance of nature's freedom"     _Frontis_

  "... that suddenly falling wooded and broken ground where Mill
       River loiters through Paradise"                                 6

  "On this green of the dryads... lies My Own Acre"                   8

  "The beautiful mill-pond behind its high dam keeps the river full
      back to the rap