. Old-fashioned gardening; a history and a reconstruction. Gardens; Gardening. OF BEGINNINGS FOUR paths lead back, through time-dimmed reaches, in four directions, to the first gardens of this western world. Overgrown and choked they are, and all but obliterated, for battles have raged over them, blood has soaked them, and the wilderness has very nearly claimed them for its own, again and again. Yet they are not quite lost; the very fact that we, as a nation, are here, is the strongest assurance that they too remain. For a history of a people's gardens is very nearly a history of the people th
. Old-fashioned gardening; a history and a reconstruction. Gardens; Gardening. OF BEGINNINGS FOUR paths lead back, through time-dimmed reaches, in four directions, to the first gardens of this western world. Overgrown and choked they are, and all but obliterated, for battles have raged over them, blood has soaked them, and the wilderness has very nearly claimed them for its own, again and again. Yet they are not quite lost; the very fact that we, as a nation, are here, is the strongest assurance that they too remain. For a history of a people's gardens is very nearly a history of the people themselves; and where civilization has maintained itself, there gardens have been made. The longest of these paths—^longest yet in some re- spects the least obscure—ends at that old city which Spain built, upon the site seized from the Huguenots whom Menendez massacred in 1565—St. Augustine, in Florida. But this one trail is foreign-seeming all its length, and nowhere upon it does the pilgrim of the western world feel at home. It is as if the spirit. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tabor, Grace. New York, McBride, Nast & company
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