CONTENTS. . 



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 Excellence of gardening .... 5 



Its patrons 5 



Its authors 5 



Royal patronage 6 



History of gardens 7 



The Romans and Greeks.... 9 



Schools of gardening 10 



Italian 11 



French 12 



Versailles 12 



Extravagancies 13 



Dutch 17 



English 19 



Shenstone 19 



Price on the Picturesque.... 20 

 The formal and the natural 



style 22 



Modern progress of horti- 

 culture 25 



Newspapers 25 



Societies 26 



Florists 27 



Tulipomania 27 



Endless varieties 28 



Names of flowers 29 



Pedantry of gaixleners 31 



Orchideous plants 32 



Use in manufactures 34 



Ferns 35 



Ward's glass-cases 36 



The sick chamber 38 



Curiosities of gardening .... 41 



Darwin 41 



Floating gardens 43 



Travelling gardens 44 



Lady-cardeners 44 



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Mrs. Loudon 45 



Watering 47 



Lawns 47 



Walks 47 



Edgings 49 



Progress of gardening 51 



Exhibitions of Horticultural 



Society 53 



Old English style 54 



'Poetry of Gardening ' 55 



A perfect garden 56 



Hollyocks 57 



Bromley Hill 57 



Site 59 



I Hemlock-spruce 60 



Berberis 60 



| Deodara 61 



Herb-garden 62 



Maze 63 



Mound 63 



Bowling-green 63 



Oxford gardens 64 



Formal style 64 



Evelyn's hedge 65 



Associations of gardens 66 



Lovers of gardens 67 



English climate 68 



Hybernation of plants 70 



Blessings of gardening 72 



To all classes 72 



Christian teaching 74 



To the poor man 75 



To the clergy 77 



Seedlings 79 



Flower-decoration 80 



Poetry of Gardening 83 



