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Smntner-house at Ravensworth, County Fairfax, Virginia. 

 Home of Mrs. W. H. Fitzhugh Lee. Photographed by 



Elizabeth W. Trescot 392 



Beehives at Waterford, Virginia. Photographed by Henry 



Troth facing 394 



Beehives under the Trees. Photographed by Henry Troth . 395 

 Spring House at Johnson Homestead, Germantown, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Photographed by Henry Troth . . . facing 396 

 Dovecote at Shirley-on-James, Virginia. From Some Colonial 

 Mansions and Those who lived in Them. Published by 

 Henry T. Coates &= Co., Philadelphia .... 397 



The Peacock in his Pride . 398 



The Guardian of the Garden 400 



Brick Terrace Wall at Van Cortlandt Manor. Photo- 

 graphed by J. Horace McFarland . . . facing 402 



Rail Fence Corner 403 



Topiary Work at Levens Hall ....... 404 



Oval Pergola at Arlington, Virginia. Photographed by Eliza- 

 beth W. Trescot facing 406 



French Homestead, Kingston, Rhode Island, with Old Stone 



Terrace Wall. Photographed by Sarah F. Marchant . 407 

 Italian Garden at Wellesley, Massachusetts. Country-seat of 



Hollis H. Hunnewell, Esq facing 408 



Marble Steps in Italian Garden at Wellesley, Massachusetts . 410 



Topiary Work in California 412 



Serpentine Brick Wall at University of Virginia, Charlottes- 



ville, Virginia. Photographed by Elizabeth W. Trescot . 413 

 Chestnut Path in Garden at Indian Hill, Newburyporl, Mas- 

 sachusetts. Photographed by Herschel F. Davis facing 418 

 Foxgloves in Lower Garden at Indian Hill, Newburyport, 



Massachusetts. Photographed by Herschel F. Davis . 42 1 

 Dame's Rocket. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall . . 424 

 Snakeroot. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall . . . 426 

 Title-page of Parkinson's Paradisi in Solis, etc. . facing 428 

 Yuccas, like White Marble against the Evergreens . . . 430 

 Fraxinella in Garden of Miss Frances Clary Morse, Worces- 

 ter, Massachusetts facing 432 



Love-in-a-Mist. Photographed by Henry Troth . . . 436 

 Spiderwort in an Old Worcester Garden. Photographed by 



Herschel F. Davis ...... facing 438 



