Excerpt from The Joyous Art of Gardening a Book of First Aid to the Amateur
This little book is designed to serve as First Aid to the beginning gardener. It is arranged to be of use especially to the owner of the small place who plans and makes his own garden, and whose means and time are not unlimited.
Very likely the expert gardener can find dozens and dozens of omissions, and will call to mind plant after plant which might have been included, nay, even of the sort which Ev ery Garden Ought to Have. But the expert gardener is asked to remember, that the book is meant especially for him who is not yet a gardener, but would like to be - for Pilgrim start ing for the Delectable Mountains, as it were, rather than for Pilgrim arrived - and that it is with plants as it is with children: any one desirous of adding these to his establishment is safer beginning with one or two, and these sturdy ones, than by adopting a whole asylum of promising orphans.
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