ILLUSTRATIONS. 



THE POND EFFECT LOTUSES AND WATER-LI LI KS .... Frontispiece 



LAWN IN CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, NEAR THE NORTH END OF THE MALL . 17 



ROUGH UNGRADED BANK 18 



CLOSELY MASSED ROCKS ON FINISHED STEEP BANK 19 



PARTLY FINISHED ROCKY BANK READY FOR PLANTING 21 



ENTRANCE TO CAVE IN THE RAMBLE, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK ... 23 



STEPS LEADING TO CAVE IN THE RAMBLE, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK . . 25 



STONE BRIDGE ADJOINING LARGE NATURAL ROCK, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK 27 



YUCCA RECURVA 29 



YELLOW JASMINE (Jasminum nudifloruni) 35 



WEEPING GOLDEN BELL (Forsythia suspensa) 39 



FLOWERING DOGWOOD (Cornus Florida) 40 



DOUBLE-FLOWERING APPLE (Pyrus spectabilis) 41 



THE DOUBLE-FLOWERING CHERRY (Prunus cerasus, Jt.pl.) .... 42 



SOULANGE'S MAGNOLIA (Magnolia Soulangeana) 43 



* JAPAN WEEPING CHERRY 45 



JAPANESE MAGNOLIA (Magnolia stellata) 46 



ENGLISH HAWTHORN (Cralccgus oxyacantha) 47 



ENGLISH HAWTHORN (Cratccgus oxyacantha) ... ... 48 



DEUTZIA GRACILIS 49 



AZALEA MOLLIS 49 



TREE PEONY (Paonia arborea) 50 



COMMON PURPLE LILAC (Syringa vulgar is) 51 



JAPANESE MAPLE 58 



HORSE-CHESTNUT TREES, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK 61 



RED-FLOWERING HORSE-CHESTNUT (sEscnhts rubicunda) 62 



WHITE-FLOWERING HORSE-CHESTNUT (.-Esculus rubicunda) .... 63 



CHIONANTHUS VIRGINICA 64 



RHODODENDRON 68 



PINXTER FLOWER (Azalea nudijlora) 69 



BROAD-LEAVED LAUREL (Kalmia latifolia) 69 



GORDON'S MOCK ORANGE (Philadelphia Gordonianus) 72 



* From a photograph taken by Mr. Paul Dana from a specimen on the lawn of Mr. Charles A. 

 Dana, Dosoris, L. I. 



