LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



IN COLOUR 



Traveller's Joy on a Gate Pillar at Montacute, Somerset- 

 shire Frontispiece 



Facing A 



The Private Garden at Hampton Court 44 



Flower Beds and Borders at Campsea Ashe, Suffolk ... 66 



Herbaceous Borders, with Roses, at Harleyford Manor, Marlow 114 



The West Border, Hatfield 230 



Herbaceous Flowers and Clipped Yews round the Bowling 



Green at Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire .... 378 



IN BLACK AND WHITE 



The Crown Anemone (Coronaria), a plant of many beautiful 

 colours. The St. Brigid and Alderborough are splendid 

 strains of it 18 



The Star Cineraria (Stellata), a free-flowering section, very 



brilliant in colour, and useful for winter bloom ... 24 



The charming dwarf Lobelia Kathleen Mallard, deep blue in 



colour, and full double 26 



Marie Louise, one of the best-flavoured of all Pears, but not 

 hardy enough for the open, and should therefore be grown 

 on a wall 38 



The Japanese Pink, Dianthus Heddewigii, grown as an annual 



from seed sown the same year 70 



Worcester Pearmain, a valuable early dessert Apple ; the tree 

 is a healthy grower, and a prolific bearer. It is an excellent 

 sort for a small garden, to precede Cox's Orange Pippin . 80 

 ix b 



