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| Introduction | |
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| Aiken, Conrad, "The Dark City" | |
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| The Commuter's Solace | |
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| On My Knees Before My Beans | |
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| The Enemy! | |
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| Rampant Strawberries | |
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| Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women | |
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| Friendly Little Neighbors | |
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| Rose Petals (or Beyond Potpourri) | |
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| Anderson, Sherwood, Winesburg, Ohio | |
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| The Army of Bees | |
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| Bee Gardens | |
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| Honey Grog | |
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| Balzac, Honore de, The Country Doctor | |
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| The Churchman's Garden | |
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| The Alley of Hornbeam | |
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| The Espalier | |
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| Baum, L. Frank, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
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| The Deadly Poppy Field | |
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| Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre | |
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| The Gooseberry Bush | |
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| Gooseberry Chutney | |
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| Ivy Recesses | |
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| Carroll, Lewis, Through the Looking-Glass | |
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| The Garden of Live Flowers | |
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| The Shrill Little Daisies | |
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| Passionate Tiger Lilies | |
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| Cather, Willa, Death Comes for the Archbishop | |
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| An Apricot Tart | |
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| A Blanket of Purple Verbena | |
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| The Garden Palette | |
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| The Placement of Fruit Trees | |
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| Scents of Home | |
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| Cather, Willa, My Antonia | |
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| Something Under the Sun: The Pumpkin Patch | |
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| Pumpkin Pillows | |
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| The Garden of Autumn Glory | |
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| Ornamental Grasses | |
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| The Orchard (or Love Them As If They Were People) | |
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| Building the Frame for a Grape Arbor | |
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| Training a Grapevine | |
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| Mulberry Jam | |
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| The Currant Bush | |
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| Chestnutt, Charles, The House Behind the Cedars | |
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| The Garden Walk | |
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| Looking Through Cedars | |
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| The Living Fence | |
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| Colette, Places | |
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| The Herb Garden That Begs to Be Touched | |
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| Culinary Graces: A Garden Herb Salad | |
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| Heirloom Tomatoes | |
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| Dickens, Charles, The Pickwick Papers | |
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| The Hundred Perfumes | |
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| The Bird Garden | |
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| du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca | |
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| An Army of Daffodils | |
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| The Slaughterous Red Rhododendron | |
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| The Humble Crocus | |
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| Eliot, George, The Mill on the Floss | |
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| Wicked with Roses | |
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| Falkner, J. Meade, Moonfleet | |
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| The Ancient Quince | |
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| Quince Marmalade | |
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| The Forgotten Fig | |
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| Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Tender Is the Night | |
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| Nicole Diver's Summer Garden | |
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| The Kaleidoscopic Peonies | |
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| The Accidental Ornament | |
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| Forster, E. M., Howards End | |
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| The Dog Roses | |
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| Forster, E. M., Where Angels Fear to Tread | |
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| The Pea Patch | |
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| Peas with Mint | |
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| Hardy, Thomas, The Return of the Native | |
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| The Lost Art of Making a Maypole | |
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| Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Blithedale Romance | |
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| Cleverly Climbing Vines | |
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| Climb a Tree | |
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| Hawthorne, Nathaniel, "Rappaccini's Daughter" | |
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| The Garden Beneath Giovanni's Window | |
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| Garden Ornament and Sculpture | |
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| The Mystery of Vertumnus | |
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| Showy Shrubs | |
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| Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny | |
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| Fragrant Box | |
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| A Boxwood Nursery | |
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| The Single Poplar | |
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| Hugo, Victor, Les Miserables | |
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| The Garden Gone Wild | |
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| The Heyday of the Gillyflowers | |
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| Lawrence, D. H., Sons and Lovers | |
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| Swooning Before Lilies | |
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| A Tapestry of White Phlox | |
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| The Big Stand of Madonna Lilies | |
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| Mansfield, Katherine, "Bliss" | |
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| A Lovely Pear Tree | |
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| The Cat in the Garden | |
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| Orczy, Baroness Emmuska, The Scarlet Pimpernel | |
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| The Scarlet Pimpernel | |
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| Proust, Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way | |
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| The Flowering Altar | |
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| Garden Memories | |
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| Sandburg, Carl, Rootabaga Stories: "How to Tell Corn Fairies If You See 'Em" | |
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| The Corn Fairies' Dance | |
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| Corn Relish | |
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| Cornhusk Dolls | |
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| Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| An Indulgent Corner of Annuals | |
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| Raspberries | |
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| A Scarlet Begonia | |
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| Trollope, Anthony, The Small House at Allington | |
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| Croquet and Other Vigorous Lawn Games | |
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| Miss Lily Dale's Perfect Lawn | |
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| Turgenev, Ivan, On the Eve | |
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| The Contemplative Shade Garden | |
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| A Lime Tree Wherever You Are | |
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| Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
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| The Junk Garden | |
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| Facing the Sun | |
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| Wharton, Edith, Ethan Frome | |
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| Traveler's Joy | |
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| Wharton, Edith, The House of Mirth | |
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| Art in the Garden | |
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| The Lingering Summer Garden | |
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| Wiggin, Kate Douglas, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | |
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| Garden of Buttercups | |
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| The Palette of Wild Mushrooms | |
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| Wilde, Oscar, "Devoted Friend" | |
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| The Unfolding Garden | |
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| Shepherd's Purse and Other Quirky Flowers of Yesteryear | |
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| Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray | |
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| Languorous Lilac | |
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| Wolfe, Thomas, Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life | |
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| Gant's Yard | |
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| The Plum Tree | |
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| Zola, Emile, Nana | |
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| The Kitchen Garden | |
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| Artichokes! | |
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| A Strawberry Jar | |
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| Strawberry Spinach Salad | |
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| Reading List | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |