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Preface / John Lindstrom ; Introduction / John Stempien

I: The garden in the mind. General advice ; To one who hath no garden ; The common natural history ; The importance of seeing correctly ; A reverie of gardens ; The feeling for plants ; Planting a plant ; Gardening and its future ; Undertone

II: The growing of the plants. The miracle ; How to make a garden : the first lesson ; The home garden ; How to make a garden : digging in the dirt ; The growing of plants by children : the school-garden ; 307 ; The spirit of the garden ; Oak ; The principles of pruning ; The weather ; What is a weed? ; White clover

III: Flowers. Blossoms ; The symbolism of flowers ; Extrinsic and intrinsic views of nature ; The flower-growing should be part of the design ; Annuals: the best kinds and how to grow them ; Campanula

IV: Fruits & vegetables. The admiration of good materials ; The affection for the work ; The growing of the vegetable plants ; The fruit-garden ; Peach ; Where there is no apple-tree ; Apple-year

V: Spring to winter. The garden flows ; The new year ; The dandelion ; The apple-tree in the landscape ; from Lessons of to-day ; Leaves ; The garden of gourds ; Lesson I: The pumpkin ; November: June ; An outlook on winter ; Midwinter ; Greenhouse in the snow ; The garden of pinks ; December ; VI: Epilogue. Marvels at our feet ; Society of the Holy Earth

Appendix I: The garden fence

Appendix II: Books by Liberty Hyde Bailey.

The garden in the mind

The growing of the plants

Flowers

Fruits & vegetables

Spring to winter

Epilogue.

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Gardening > Literary collections.

Literary collections.

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