CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGES 



The Point of View ^ "^ 



o 



What a garden is 



CHAPTER II 



The General Plan or Theory of the Place 6-60 



The plan of the grounds 



The picture in the landscape ^'^ 



Birds ; and cats 



The planting is part of the design or picture 1^ 



The flower-growing should he part of the design . . . .27 



Defects in flower-growing 28 



Lawn flower-beds ^^ 



Flower-borders ^^ 



The old-fashioned garden ^* 



Contents of the flower-borders ^^ 



The value of plants may lie in foliage and form rather than in 



bloom ^^ 



Odd and formal trees '*^ 



Poplars and the like ^^ 



Plant-forms ^^ 



Various specific examples 



An example 



Another example *' 



A third example 



A small back yard ^^ 



A city lot .... ^^ 



General remarks *** 



Meview ^* 



CHAPTER III 



Execution of So»ie of the Landscape Features . . . 61-86 



The grading 



