Wood and Garden; Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

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Longmans, 1899
 

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Stranica 178 - I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its master or his tastes just as his clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.
Stranica 4 - For I hold that the best purpose of a garden is to give delight and to give refreshment of mind, to soothe, to refine, and to lift up the heart in a spirit of praise and thankfulness. It is certain that those who practise gardening in the best ways find it to be so.
Stranica 8 - And a garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness ; it teaches industry and thrift ; above all, it teaches entire trust.
Stranica 4 - For the love of gardening is a seed that, once sown, never dies, but always grows and grows to an enduring and ever-increasing source of happiness.
Stranica 3 - Gallery dren, inquiring about flowers, and wanting gardens of their own, and carefully working in them. For the love of gardening is a seed that, once sown, never dies, but always grows and grows to an enduring and ever-increasing...
Stranica 152 - For planting ground is painting a landscape with living things ; and as I hold that good gardening takes rank within the bounds of the fine arts, so I hold that to plant well needs an artist of no mean capacity.
Stranica 4 - I am strongly for treating garden and wooded ground in a pictorial way, mainly with large effects, and in the second place with lesser beautiful incidents, and for so arranging plants and trees and grassy spaces that they look happy and at home, and make no parade of conscious effort.
Stranica 238 - ... are those of the aromatic class, where they seem to have a wholesome resinous or balsamic base, with a delicate perfume added. When I pick and crush in my hand a twig of Bay, or brush against a bush of Rosemary, or tread upon a tuft of Thyme, or pass through...
Stranica 173 - THE size of a garden has very little to do with its merit. It is merely an accident relating to the circumstances of the owner. It is the size of his heart and brain and goodwill that will make his garden either delightful or dull...
Stranica 269 - Because it has in some measure become fashionable, and because it is understood to mean the planting of exotics in wild places, unthinking people rush to the conclusion that they can put any garden plants into any wild places, and that that is wild gardening. I have seen woody places that were already...

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