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view. appearing in New York !Herald Tribune IBoOks which reads: "One .~ need not ·hil! a.n hem s-a.rdenln,g enthusiast to f.ind: in this small volume a ~ and a .«inse of pe,ace •too seldOlJl discovered ln books of hortl'

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, fol" the rest; you should be iyour own 'A ,plant of IBalm, lifte\f t from ,the. ;rune e·arth with its be a.rd ',of·delicat.e roots, a. lbush of IT~q.~. flowf!i' 1n the. hot sun. Angelica. !IP: tng· in Gothic reedsr<where· the ric,h and level earth long stores its r,e,i.I\, each of these is still a use, a potency, 'tmd: a name. ·A garden of herbs )s

ii, :a'afden of things loved for the,itielves · iii ~ . wholeness and ~:q.tegrity. Iti ls not a garden of f~:ers, lbut a garden of plants. wµi:ff_\l

are sometimes very lovely f1o"Jf~£S and are .always .more than flow~f· j. U 'is, a garden of color ~n ,as. a, pllf.t 1 of jta,rden life a,nd, not. as its climll,X i and close, o,f the pleasures and 111!.freshments of. ·fragreihce, of the fantasy and oeauty of leaves,. of, the joy df symmetry and design in 1.fure, of that neglected! delight to ,pe found in garden ·contrasts anji bar·. nies of green.' "·.,This char~~g· little 'book, from the press of Doubleday, Dora.n &· ~-,is on our libr11,ry shelves-don't fair to read it. '1·

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