Book/Printed Material My garden,
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Image 2 of My garden, Pass O J.y *fd O Book L- CopyiiglitE?. COPYRIGHT DEPOSrr.
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 3 of My garden,
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 4 of My garden,
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 6 of My garden,
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 7 of My garden,
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 8 of My garden, »?resT!«l.: V^fdWRFWCirWi a mosaic or tapestry-like effect does not seem to me what we want in our home gardens, but a gracious blending and contrasting of lovely elements sweeps and patches and...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 9 of My garden, MY GARDEN BY LOUISE BEEBE WILDER The eye always asks for a definite boundary to a piece of ornamental ground as it does for a frame to a picture. John Sedding ILLUSTRATED...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 10 of My garden, SB153 Copyright, 1916, hy DOUBLEDAY, PaGE COMPANY All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian h OCT 30 1916 ©CI,A445431
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 11 of My garden, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER AND FATHER, MARY HARRISON AND CHARLES STUART BEEBE, THROUGH WHOSE LOVE AND WISDOM I FIRST OWNED A GARDEN
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 12 of My garden,
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 13 of My garden, Bless me, what a delightful prospect is herel And so it ought to be, for this garden was designed for pleasure— but for honest pleasure; the entertainment of the sight, the smell,...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 14 of My garden,
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 15 of My garden, A FOREWORD AND A PLEA A garden is preeminently a place to indulge individual taste. So regardless of doctors, let me say that the best general rule that I can devise for...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 16 of My garden, X A FOREWORD AND A PLEA That we have opinions does not, or should not, mean that we expect others to espouse them immediately upon their recitation, and, if the ideas hereafter...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 17 of My garden, A FOREWORD AND A PLEA xi and am deeply interested in, all other kinds of gardens from the great and magnificent, with marble terraces and stairways, rare plants and many gardeners, to...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 18 of My garden, xii A FOREWORD AND A PLEA of leanness when Chicory and Buttercups must needs come in and hide neglect and failure; the child throve, until now, in its maturity, it is a...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 19 of My garden, A FOREWORD AND A PLEA xiii caused by exercise of the muscles in the open air which is in no way akin to that heavy exhaustion which comes from much labour indoors....
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 20 of My garden, xiv A FOREWORD AND A PLEA activities in the garden were looked upon decidedly askance by my neighbours, for in their world a woman s social position is more or less determined...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 21 of My garden, A FOREWORD AND A PLEA xv and men to keep them up, more than this is needed to endow a garden with enduring charm and individuality. Just as we wish to feel...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 22 of My garden, xvi A FOREWORD AND A PLEA people upon their best behaviour. Its nice refinement secures the mood for politeness. Its heightened beauty produces the disposition that delights in what is beauti- ful...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 23 of My garden, CONTENTS PAGE A Foreword and a Plea ix CHAPTER I. In the Making 3 II. The Nursery 28 III. The Day Before Spring and the Next 46 rV. May in the Garden...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 24 of My garden,
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 25 of My garden, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Colored drawing on wrapper. From a painting by Miss Winegar A mosaic or tapestry-like effect does not seem to me what we want in our home gardens Frontispiece FACING...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 26 of My garden,
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 28 of My garden,
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 29 of My garden, CHAPTER ONE IN THE MAKING Take thy plastic spade, it is thy pencil; take thy seed, thy plants, they are thy colours. Mason. r IS well, I think, for all gardeners, present...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 30 of My garden, 4 MY GARDEN recently, since Kent* leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden, that such an anomaly as a barrierless garden was thought of, much less perpe- trated....
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 31 of My garden, IN THE MAKING 5 or chains hung between, upon which Roses or other long- Hmbed vines may be trained. For small gardens or for divisions between different parts of large gardens, the...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 32 of My garden, 6 MY GARDEN seasons after planting in early spring this to insure a compact growth at the base and thereafter the prun- ing may be done in June when the spring growth...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 33 of My garden, IN THE MAKING 7 will have a hedge that is lacking in strength and sub- stance, easily blown out of shape by every wind, and also one that is very difficult to...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 34 of My garden, 8 MY GARDEN^ Having got the garden securely enclosed, the next step is the careful preparation of beds and borders, that our plants may dwell in peace and wax in strength and...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 35 of My garden, IN THE MAKING 9 the heart to withhold from us the sunshine of its smiles. The edging of the beds and borders is rather a vexing problem, for upon it depends, a...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 36 of My garden, 10 MY GARDEN behave themselves behind Box edgings they do not get out into the path, nor sprawl about, but seem somehow imbued with the prim manners of Box ^but this will...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 37 of My garden, IN THE MAKING 11 squeezed into the narrow space of a chapter, and besides, each one of us must desire and choose his own flowers or he loses the very pith of...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 38 of My garden, 12 MY GARDEN reluctant, helpless plants conditions which are utterly unsuitable. For beneficent Nature has so bountifully provided for us that no one need be without an over- flowing joyous garden if...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 39 of My garden, IN THE MAKING 13 tions are making some effort nowadays at harmonious grouping, which is very helpful to the novice in forming an- opinion as to the relative merits of the various...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916
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Image 40 of My garden, 14 MY GARDEN The best effect is arrived at in the borders by mass- ing the plants in irregular groups of one kind, the size of the group to be determined by...
- Contributor: Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Date: 1916