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The garden and its accessories (1907)

Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 212

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suggestive of cemeteries and cheerlessfront yards of our commercial towns, andthe other hideous affair of gas pipe that onesometimes sees around a garden ? Theycan never look well unless completelysmothered in vines and shrubbery. Theyshould be sent with their friends, the fila-gree iron fountains… … THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES seashore location ; yet how iinhke theother is the setting of either. However,tliey both have the same common pur-pose : seclusion and the shutting out ofobnoxious features. In both these casesthe surrounding landscape plays a smallpart in making the garden picture.…

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