قراءة كتاب The Garden, You, and I
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| A Seaside Garden (see p. 243) | Frontispiece |
| "The magnolias below at the road-bend" | 8 |
| English Larkspur Seven Feet High | 32 |
| Fraxinella—German Iris and Candy-tuft | 44 |
| Longfellow's Garden | 81 |
| The Summer Garden—Verbenas | 86 |
| Asters | 90 |
| The Pictorial Value of Evergreens | 102 |
| "My roses are scattered here, there, and everywhere" | 119 |
| Madame Plantier at Van Cortland Manor | 128 |
| A Convenient Rose-bed | 138 |
| "The last of the old orchard" | 156 |
| The Screen of White Birches | 166 |
| "An endless shelter for every sort of wild thing" | 184 |
| Speciosum Lilies in the Shade | 270 |
| The Poet's Narcissus | 278 |
| A Bed of Japan Pinks | 296 |
| Single and Double Pinks | 314 |
| "The silver maple by the lane gate" | 326 |
| "A curtain to the side porch" | 328 |
| An Iris Hedge | 358 |
| Daphne Cneorum | 360 |
| A Terrible Example | 362 |
| "The low snow-covered meadow" | 372 |
| "Punch ... has a cache under the syringa bushes" | 374 |
THE GARDEN, YOU, AND I
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THE WAYS OF THE WIND
"Out of the veins of the world comes the blood of me;
The heart that beats in my side is the heart of the sea;
The hills have known me of old, and they do not forget;
Long ago was I friends with the wind; I am friends with it yet."
—Gerald Gould."
Whenever a piece of the land is to be set apart for a garden, two mighty rulers must be consulted as to the boundaries. When this earth child is born and flower garnished for the christening, the same two must be also bidden as sponsors. These rulers are the Sun and the Wind. The sun, if the matter in hand is once fairly spread before him and put in his charge, is a faithful guardian, meeting frankness frankly and sending his penetrating and vitalizing messengers through well-nigh inviolable shade. But of the wind, who shall answer for it or trust it? Do we really ever learn all of its vagaries and impossible