. The garden book of California. Gardening; Gardens. BACK-YARD PROBLEMS. Among the links between mans mind and nature n>e mail place, as one of the most obvious, man's earliest at- tempt to select and group from her scattered varieties of form that winch—at once a poem and a picture—forms, as it were, the decorated border-land between man's home and nature's measureless domains, the garden.—Bulwer. T IS Samuel Parsons, Jr., who, in his clever little book upon planning home grounds, dis- tinguishes between the vines that contribute to the natural and picturesque in the garden and those vines
. The garden book of California. Gardening; Gardens. BACK-YARD PROBLEMS. Among the links between mans mind and nature n>e mail place, as one of the most obvious, man's earliest at- tempt to select and group from her scattered varieties of form that winch—at once a poem and a picture—forms, as it were, the decorated border-land between man's home and nature's measureless domains, the garden.—Bulwer. T IS Samuel Parsons, Jr., who, in his clever little book upon planning home grounds, dis- tinguishes between the vines that contribute to the natural and picturesque in the garden and those vines which are civilized and conven- tional in their habits and tend to dignify the surroundings. Somehow we associate certain vines with certain conditions. Rightly or not we consign the dense evergreen growth and the somewhat indifferent character of the bloom of dolichos, the Australian bean, to covering up the shabbiness of rear yards, back-fences, shabby buildings and outhouses, while the rampant nasturtiums with all their vividness of color, their sweetness of perfume, and their faculty for giving a crisp young look to the premises, are very apt to find them- selves close neighbors to the cabbages, and cauliflowers, and other kitchen-garden and "hidden corner" adjuncts of our domains. [98]. 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 Angier, Belle Sumner. San Francisco, New York, P. Elder and company
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