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| Shrubs are better than annuals for masking right angles. South |
| Hall, Williston Seminary |
74 |
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| " ... a line of shrubbery swinging in and out in strong, graceful |
| undulations" |
74 |
| |
| "However enraptured of wild nature you may be, you do and must |
| require of her some subserviency about your own dwelling" |
84 |
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| "Plant it where it will best enjoy itself" |
86 |
| |
| " ... climaxes to be got by superiority of stature, by darkness and breadth |
| of foliage and by splendor of bloom belong at its far end" |
94 |
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| "Some clear disclosure of charm still remote may beckon and lure" |
96 |
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| " ... tall, rectangular, three-story piles ... full of windows all of |
| one size, pigeon-house style" |
100 |
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| "You can make gardening a concerted public movement" |
112 |
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| "Plant on all your lot's boundaries, plant out the foundation-lines |
| of all its buildings" |
122 |
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| "Not chiefly to reward the highest art in gardening, but to procure |
| its widest and most general dissemination" |
122 |
| |
| "Having wages bigger than their bodily wants, and having spiritual |
| wants numerous and elastic enough to use up the surplus" |
138 |
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| "One such competing garden was so beautiful last year that strangers |
| driving by stopped and asked leave to dismount and enjoy a nearer view" |
138 |
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| "Beauty can be called into life about the most unpretentious domicile" |
148 |
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| "Those who pay no one to die, plant or prune for them" |
148 |
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| "In New Orleans the home is bounded by its fences, not by its |
| doors—so they clothe them with shrubberies and vines" |
174 |
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| "The lawn ... lies clean-breasted, green-breasted, from one |
| shrub-and-flower-planted side to the other, along and across" |
174 |
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| "There eight distinct encumbrances narrow the sward.... In a |
| half-day's work, the fair scene might be enhanced in lovely |
| dignity by the elimination of these excesses" |
176 |
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| "The rear walk ... follows the dwelling's ground contour with |
| business precision—being a business path" |
178 |
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| "Thus may he wonderfully extenuate, even ... where it does not |
| conceal, the house's architectural faults" |
180 |
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| " ... a lovely stage scene without a hint of the stage's unreality" |
182 |
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| "Back of the building-line the fences ... generally more |
| than head-high ... are sure to be draped" |
184 |
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| " ... from the autumn side of Christmas to the summer side of Easter" |
184 |
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| "The sleeping beauty of the garden's unlost configuration ... keeping |
| a winter's share of its feminine grace and softness" |
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