CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. ART IN RELATION TO FLOWER GARDENING AND GARDEN 



DESIGN ........ 3 



II. GARDEN DESIGN AND RECENT WRITINGS UPON IT . .10 



III. DESIGN AND POSITION ; AGAINST STYLES, USELESS STONEWORK, 

 AND STEREOTYPED PLANS; TIME'S EFFECT ON GARDEN 

 DESIGN; ARCHITECTURE AND FLOWER GARDENS; DESIGN 

 NOT FORMAL ONLY; USE IN THE GARDEN OF BUILDERS' 

 AND OTHER DEGRADED FORMS OF THE PLASTIC ART . 2O 



IV. BORDERS OF HARDY FLOWERS ..... 25 



V. THE RESERVE AND CUT FLOWER GARDENS ... .36 



VI. HARDY BULBOUS FLOWERS . . . . . .41 



VII. ANNUAL AND BIENNIAL PLANTS . . . . . 52 



VIII. FLOWERING SHRUBS AND TREES AND THEIR ARTISTIC USE . 59 



IX. CLIMBERS AND THEIR ARTISTIC USE .... 69 



X. ALPINE FLOWER, ROCK, AND WALL GARDENS ... 84 

 XI. THE WILD GARDEN ....... 95 



XII. SPRING GARDENS . . . . . . 105 



THE SUMMER GARDEN BEAUTIFUL. 



XIII. THE NEW ROSE GARDEN . . . . . .117 



XIV. CARNATION, LILY, IRIS, AND THE NOBLER SUMMER FLOWERS . 128 



XV. PLANTS IN VASES AND TUBS IN THE OPEN AIR . . . 132 



XVI. BEAUTY OF FORM IN THE FLOWER GARDEN . . .140 



XVII. THE FLOWER GARDEN IN AUTUMN . . . . .152 



XVIII. THE FLOWER GARDEN IN WINTER . . . .158 



XIX. WATER GARDENS . . . . . . . 166 



XX. THE BOG GARDEN ..... . 177 



XXL THE HARDY FERN GARDEN . . .' . .184 



XXII. COLOUR IN THE FLOWER GARDEN ..... 190 



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