List of Illustrations 



A mountain home adapted from the Swiss chalet, in California 



Frontispiece 



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A summer home and its garden at Saratoga, N. Y 2 



An old Salem garden 3 



A house and enclosed garden at Cornish, N. H 4 



A house on a wooded hillside, Englewood, N. J 5 



The lily-pond, Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Mass 20 



An English treatment of a rocky slope 21 



An American treatment of a rocky slope 26 



Stone steps in a Cornish, N. H., garden 27 



Nature's shrubbery by a brookside 27 



The Red Rose Inn of Stoke Pogis, near Philadelphia 30 



An old-fashioned city garden 30 



A lawn spoiled by a flower bed 31 



An old English garden showing the extreme of complicated bedding. . . 31 



A house in the wildwood left to Nature 38 



A house on the rocks left to Nature 38 



Steps and fountain in the garden of the Villa Lante 39 



Trees and columns in an old Italian garden 39 



The formal entrance to an estate 50 



The informal entrance to an estate 50 



An informal entrance path 51 



A formal entrance path 51 



The luxuriance of two years' growth 52 



Vines from within a pergola 53 



A wall trellis supporting climbers 53 



Four of the best house vines 58 



An unpretentious cottage simply treated, Magnolia, Mass 59 



Harmony of lines in a widening vista 62 



Harmony of lines in a narrowing vista 62 



