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Title: American estates and gardens
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Ferree, Barr, 1862-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- United States Gardens
Publisher: New York, Munn and Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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rained, andthe whole kept in that spick-and-span orderliness which seems so charmingh- characteristic ofold-time life. The old-time garden makers were not concerned with the mighty jiroblems which nowbeset the designers of modern fine gardens. The materials at their hands were few and unim-portant. They planted shrubs easy of cultivation; they made borders of ))lants close at hand;they planted the seeds of ready growing annual plants, and were content to watch their sim;3leflowers grow and bloom and transform what may have been a waste into a bower of colorand foHage. The homehness of the plants was the best evidence of the dee))-seated love ofthe old garden maker. He knew little of vistas and axes, and of garden architecture he hadnever heard; but out of the simple plants that thrived in the open soil he created gardens that,when they have survived, have been sources of unending joy to those who knew them, whowalked in their narrow paths, and loved each simple old-time flower. (-^71)
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wZ 2a < O O h<h w w u, ^1Z Goi<O hD O (272) AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS The old-tiine garden was an individual garden. It would be a mistake to su):.pose thatthe gardener, the specialist in garden making, is a new-fashioned adjunct to the country house.The modern gardener differs from the old gardener exactly as the modern garden differs fromthe old garden. But ever and always the old-time garden was an individual garden, a gardenin which the master and mistress took a definite personal interest, a garden in which themistress often labored with her own hands, and which she regarded as her very own, notalone by right of ownership, but by right of actual labor. The old-time garden is a modest garden, alive with the common plants. But everyone of these lovely old plants—and many others—has a real inherent beauty of its own,and as inherently present in the single plant as in a whole border. If they are common,it surely can not be because they are coarse and ugly, but because

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