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introductory: I have laid special stress upon gardening for beautiful effect; it is because it is the way of gardening that I love best and understand most of, and that seems to me capable of giving the greatest amount of pleasure." In accordance with these theories, garal effect, and plant life is considered accordden and wooded ground are studied for pictoriing to harmony. The illustrations are nearly all reproductions of photographs taken on the author's own grounds.

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Verses that have appeared in The Atlantic, Century, Scribner's, Harper's, The Bookman, and other periodicals.

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