NOTE 



To the publishers and editors of The Garden 

 Magazine my thanks are due for kind permission 

 to reprint here those portions of this book which 

 originally appeared in the columns of that peri- 

 odical. To the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 

 ety and to The Garden Club of America I am 

 indebted for the use of passages written for those 

 organizations. And to the several amateur gar- 

 deners, known and unknown to me, whose writing 

 or whose photographs grace these pages, I offer 

 here most hearty appreciation of their friendly 



aid. 



Louisa Yeomans King. 



Orchard House, 

 Ai^A, Michigan. 



