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Let's Make A Flower Garden (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Let's Make A Flower Garden (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Let's make a flower garden - 1912 - PREFACE - Several of the
chapters in this book have appeared, essentially in their present
form, in The Craftsman, The Ladies IVorld, Suburban i f a e nd
House and Garden. To the editors of these magazines the authors
thanks are due for permission to use this ma terial again. PAGE
INTRODVCTIO . N . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 HE HOTBE A D S D
TRASSPLASTIX . G . . . . . . . 1 39 THE T BAXSIES E T D EN . . . .
. . . . . . 15 1 T H E I L L U S T R A T I O N S Perhaps I
plagiarized a bit from the Japanese in designing my arches . . . .
. . . . . Frontispiece FACING PAGE Blossoms which lure to the
garden birds I would never otherwise see . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Clematis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Nothing is so absolutely
entrancing as a clump of nicotiana in the moon glow . . . . . . . .
. . . 26 Salpiglossis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 The Canterbury
Bells add a delicacy and poetry to every bed in which they chime .
. . . . . . . . 42 Hardy chrysanthemums . . . . . . . . . . . 43
The most decorative form in all the flower world . . . 58 German
iris . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 The horse-bitten rose . . . . . .
. . . . 74 Rlaman Cochet roses . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Tall
single tulips and the eccentric parrots . . . . . 106 Narcissus . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 In its ghost stage the dandelion
reaches the spiritual . . 114 Sedge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
115 THE ILLUSTRATIONS-continued PACING Arch and trellis are painted
a soft gray green . . . . P 1 A 3 C 0 E Sweet peas . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 13 1 We transplant our Shirley poppies and thereby have
them just where we want them . . . . . . . . . . 14 6 Shirley
poppies . . . . .. . . . . . . . 14 7 An annual hollyhock . . . . .
. . . . . . 15 - 1 Cobcea scandens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 55 A
bench along Dutch lines . . . . . . . . . . 1 60 Lady Gay roses
about the suiidial . . . . . . . . 16 1 The public bath where
iucnlbers of tlle orcl eetra bathe an drink . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 17 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . A buccaneer butterfly 171 A
brookbreakingice barriers inspring . . . . . . 1 80 Abluejay . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 1 The poor English sparrow does not
deserve the continuous persecution that he suffers under . . . . .
. 18 5 The insatiable robin . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 89 The
guardian of the garden . . . . . . . . . 20 2 P . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 2 03 T HERE are some phrases which carry magic in their
sound, a magic which cannot be explained by mere logic, and the
greatest of these phrases is, Lets make a garden. It has a Merry
Christmas, Hurrah for the Fourth of July tinkle of joy. The
instinct to mingle with the soil evidences itself in the mud pie
stage of childhood as we grow older we merely make many more, and
much more beautiful mud pies with frosting of perfumed color, and
call it Garden. No one ever entirely grows up who lives in a gar
den. I feel sure almost all gardeners still believe in Santa Claus
and as for fairies, was it not in Kensington Gardens that Mr.
Barrie discovered all the wonderful facts about Peter Pan Perhaps
it is the help of the Little People that makes gardening so easy
for mortals. I know many professionals try to scare one with all l
sorts of bugaboo theories of the difficulties of flower culture but
to refute this, we only have to take a drive through the outlying
districts of the town where theworkmen and washerwomen - the
so-called humbler citizens - live, and the prodigality of bloom
surrounding each busy doorstep will soon show us what wealth even
the supposed poor may own, without adding extra burden to their
tired backs...
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Imprint: |
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2008 |
First published: |
February 2008 |
Authors: |
Hanna Rion
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
252 |
Edition: |
illustrated edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4086-1582-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Health, Home & Family >
Gardening >
General
Books >
Gardening >
General
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LSN: |
1-4086-1582-7 |
Barcode: |
9781408615829 |
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