LIST OF PLATES 



PLATE 

 I. 



II. 

 III. 



IV. 



The open center 



Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



VI. 

 VII. 



VIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XI. 



XII. 



XIII. 



XIV. 



XV. 



XVI. 



XVII. 



XVIII. 



XIX. 



XX. 



The plan of the place 8 



Open-center treatment in a semi-tropical country ... 20 



Subtropical bedding against a building. Caladiums, cannas, 



abutilons, permanent rhododendrons, and other large stuff, 



with tuberous begonias and balsams between 



A subtropical bed. Center of cannas, with border of Pennise- 



tum longistylum (a grass) started in late February or early 



March 



A tree that gives character to a place 



The planted area. The main sweep of the open lawn is not 

 shown in the picture, but the beginning of the tilled grounds 



is indicated 



A well-planted entrance. Common trees and bushes, with 

 Boston ivy on the post, and Berberis Thunbergii in front . 

 A rocky bank covered with permanent informal planting 

 Rock-garden plantation on the stone steps .... 



The rock-garden, in a rear place 



A garden walk. An attractive effect along a margin or in the 



rear 



Planting against the background. Astilbe and campanula 



A good evergreen wall-cover. Evonyrmis radicans 



A shallow lawn pond, containing water-lilies, variegated sweet 



flag, iris, and subtropical bedding at the rear ; fountain 



covered with parrot's feather (Myriophyllum proserpina- 



coides) 230 



A back yard with summer house, and gardens beyond . . 244 



A rose-garden. The La France rose 260 



A back yard with heavy flower-garden planting . . . 270 

 The pageant of summer. Gardens of C. W. Dowdeswell, Eng- 

 land, from a painting by Miss Parsons .... 290 

 Virginia creeper screen, on an old fence, with wall-flowers 

 and hollyhocks in front .306 



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