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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 SCRIB