ILLUSTRATIONS 



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"God's glorious out-of-doors" Frontispiece 



The house after ten years 18 



The lawn after ten years 19 



The blue columbine from Colorado 24 



One of the Indian "metatas" 24 



The Manchurian cherry, or Prunus Mackii, after five years . 25 



An old elm on the Indiana farm 25 



Two of the Berlepsch bird boxes 38 



The German automatic food-bell 38 



The robin's rendezvous 39 



Two baby woodcocks in nest 46 



The yellow billed cuckoos a day old 46 



The nest and egg of a humming bird 47 



Egg and nest of Cooper hawk 47 



Plan of the formal garden 64 



The formal garden 65 



The first snow 68 



How we protected the box 68 



A self-so\vn columbine 69 



The ivory-white comeliness of the Japanese anemone ... 69 



The beauty of narrow pathways between high green walls . . 86 



A spring in exactly the right place 86 



The trail . . 87 



Before the grape screen are flowers for cutting 94 



The roses in winter have a comical aspect 94 



Foxgloves, too 95 



The Physalis Francheti 95 



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