The Sentiment

“We wish that every person might have a garden. We wish also that every person might have an instrument of music or good books of verse. Yet the year is not lost without them. And if one has not a garden then must one make the most of the compensations, never foregoing the satisfactions in the gardens that others make, in the gardens kept by the public for such as they. This is only to say that we would have the garden sentiment possessed of all the people, missing not one; some of the people will grow their own gardens also.” –LHBGC, p. 19

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The Sentiment

The Sentiment: What did Bailey mean, in the above quotation, that he “would have the garden sentiment possessed of all the people, missing not one?” This section explores that question through a deeper dive into some of the elements of Bailey’s “earth-philosophy.”

“A free-and-easy planting of things wild and tame,” in L. H. Bailey, Manual of Gardening (1921), fig. 12, and also in LHBGC, p. 45.

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