Excerpt from The Amateur Garden
Street of re51dence, Elm Street, beglns a gently wmdmg westerly ascent to become an open hlgh road from one to another of the several farmmg and manufacturmg Villages that use the water power of M111 Elver But whlle 1t IS stlll a street there runs from 1t southerly at a rlght angle a stralght b1t of avenue some three hundred yards long an exceptlonal length of unbent street for Northampton thls short avenue ends at an other, stlll shorter, lymg square across lts foot w1th1n some seventy yards of that suddenly fall mg wooded and broken ground where M111 Rlver lmters through Paradlse The strlp of land between the woods and fins last street 15 taken up by half a dozen dwelhngs of modest dlgmty, whose front shade-trees, belng on the southerly Slde, have been placed not on the Sldewalk's roadsrde edge but on the Slde next the dwelhngs and close w1th1n thelr hue of prlvate ownershlp red, whlte and post-oaks set there by the pres ent wr1ter when he named the street Dryads' Green They are now twenty-one years old and glve a good shade whlch actually falls where 1t IS wanted upon the Sldewalk 6that suddenly falling wooded and broken ground where Mlll Rlver lmters through Paradise.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
