The Amateur Garden

ILLUSTRATIONS

MY OWN ACRE

" ... that suddenly falling wooded and broken ground where Mill River loiters through Paradise." - A strong wire fence (invisible in the picture) here divides the grove from the old river road.

"On this green of the dryads ... lies My Own Acre." - The two young oaks in the picture are part of the row which gives the street its name.

"The beautiful mill-pond behind its high dam keeps the river full back to the rapids just above My Own Acre." - This is the "Hoe Shop." The tower was ruined by fire many years ago, and because of its unsafety is being taken down at the present writing.

"A fountain ... where one,—or two,—can sit and hear it whisper." - The ravine of the three fish pools. There is a drop of thirty feet between the upper and the lowermost pool.

"Souvenir trees had from time to time been planted on the lawn by visiting friends." - The Beecher elm, first of the souvenir trees.

THE AMERICAN GARDEN

"Beautiful results may be got on smallest grounds."

After the first frost annual plantings cease to be attractive.