LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



{See page 196 for index of garden owners or sites) 



A garden of the New South where every prospect pleases Frontispiece 



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An old-fashioned garden 15 



Something different that only the South can enjoy 16 



The orange berries of the evergreen Hawthorn 19 



Hardy, beautiful and useful are the Holly-leaved Barberry and the English 



Laurel • 21 



Japanese Holly, known to botanists as Ilex crenata 22 



Abelia grandiflora is one of the best foundation plantings 25 



Evergreen Hawthorn and Heavenly Bamboo, always distinctive, are 



especially pleasing in their Winter dress of berries 26 



Kalmia latifolia, the Mountain Laurel. 28 



English Laurel in all its beauty and usefulness 29 



The starry Oleander blossom 30 



Euphorbia, curious but attractive, too 31 



A splendid Live Oak 32 



Clipped standards of Wild Olive give distinction to this Ligustrum amu- 



rense hedge 35 



A double hedge for both privacy and appearance 37 



A hedge beneath a row of trees • 38 



Tree Boxwood as it grows in Maryland 39 



For a dense hedge keep the bottom wider than the top 41 



Old subjects and new in an old-time garden 42 



Juniperus virginiana behind Ligustrum amurense makes a soft but very 



effective screen 43 



A useful hedge planting. 44 



Boxwood edging just six years old 44 



A "close up" side-view of a well-formed hedge 45 



Twin Cypresses accent this garden entrance 46 



True harmony of both color and form 49 



Azalea Kaempferi, a valuable Japanese accession 50 



The deciduous, flame-colored Azalea, A. calendulacea 52 



Camellias — rare jewels of southern gardening 54 



Effective use of conifers on a formal terrace 56 



A happy grouping of Cypresses and Pines 56 



The exquisite softness of Japanese Cypresses 59 



A California setting in a Georgia suburb 60 



Chamaecyparis pisifera plumosa 63 



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