# The wilderness

Author: Mack, Amy E. (Amy Eleanor), 1876-1939; Moore, John D., 1888-1958 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77055

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+wilderness+Mack&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Once, long ago, part of it was garden, and the clearing between the redgums and ironbarks was planted with fruit trees and roses; but the gardener went the way of all flesh, and those who came after him did not have the same love for the garden. Now the bush has reclaimed its own, and roses and fruit trees are half hidden by the tangle of wild things which have gradually crept over them. Each spring the fruit blossoms still shine out on the unpruned trees--all the lovelier for their disorder--and mingle with the gold of the wattles; myriads of undisturbed bulbs--ixias, freesias and sparaxis--send up their blooms among the long swordgrass, outrivalling the blooms in my own well-worked gard...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-wilderness-77055/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-wilderness-77055/chapters/2/index.md)