CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



CHAP. PAGE 



I.— Art in Relation to Flower-gardening and Garden Design ... 3 



II.— Garden Design AND Recent Writings UPON IT n 



III. — Design and Position; Against Styles, Useless Stonework, and 

 Stereotyped Plans ; Time's Effect on Garden Design ; Archi- 

 tecture and Flower Gardens ; Design not formal only ; Use 

 IN the Garden of Builders, and other Degraded Forms of 

 the Plastic Art 21 



IV.— Various Flower Gardens : Mainly chosen for their Beauty ; 

 Cottage Gardens in Kent and Somerset ; Mount Usher ; 

 Greenlands ; Golder's Hill ; Pendell Court ; Rhianva ; 

 Sheen Cottage ; Drummond Castle ; Penshurst ; Compton 

 Winyates ; Ketton Cottage ; Powis ; Cotehele ; Edge Hall ; 

 Shrubland ; Chillingham ; Bulwick ; Offington ; Wilton ; 

 Stonelands, and Others 34 



v.— Borders of Hardy Flowers 76 



VI.— The Reserve and Cut-Flower Gardens 



VII.— Hardy Bulbous and Tuberous Flowers, and their Garden Use . 98 



VIII.— Annual and Biennial Plants, Half-Hardy Plants Annually 



Raised from Seed 11 1 



IX.— Flowering Shrubs and Trees, and their Artistic Use 119 



X.— Climbers and their Artistic Use 128 



XI. — Alpine Flower-, Rock- and Wall-Gardens 140 



XII.— The Wild Garden 156 



XIII. — Spring Gardens 167 



THE SUMMER GARDEN BEAUTIFUL:— 



XIV.— The New Rose Garden 182 



XV.— Carnation, Lily, Iris, and the Nobler Summer Flowers .... 199 



XVI. — Summer-bedding 205 



XVII.— Plants in Vases and Tubs in the Open Air 214 



