Part 2

"The lane is open to view from end to end. It has two deep bays on the side nearest the lawn" 36

"... until the house itself seems as naturally ... to grow up out of the garden as the high keynote rises at the end of a lady's song" 48

"Beautiful results may be got on smallest grounds" 52

"Muffle your architectural angles in foliage and bloom" 52

Fences masked by shrubbery 64

After the first frost annual plantings cease to be attractive 72

Shrubbery versus annuals 72

Shrubs are better than annuals for masking right angles. South Hall, Williston Seminary 74

"... 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

"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

"Some clear disclosure of charm still remote may beckon and lure" 96

"... tall, rectangular, three-story piles ... full of windows all of one size, pigeon-house style" 100

"You can make gardening a concerted public movement" 112

"Plant on all your lot's boundaries, plant out the foundation-lines of all its buildings" 122

"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

"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

"Beauty can be called into life about the most unpretentious domicile" 148

"Those who pay no one to die, plant or prune for them" 148

"In New Orleans the home is bounded by its fences, not by its doors--so they clothe them with shrubberies and vines" 174

"The lawn ... lies clean-breasted, green-breasted, from one shrub-and-flower-planted side to the other, along and across" 174

"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

"The rear walk ... follows the dwelling's ground contour with business precision--being a business path" 178

"Thus may he wonderfully extenuate, even ... where it does not conceal, the house's architectural faults" 180

"... a lovely stage scene without a hint of the stage's unreality" 182

"Back of the building-line the fences ... generally more than head-high ... are sure to be draped" 184