List of Illustrations xvii 



Summer-house at Ravensworth, County Fairfax, Virginia. 

 Home of Mrs. W. H. Fitzhugh Lee. Photographed by 

 Elizabeth W. Trescot . . .■ . . . . 392 



Beehives at Wat erf or d, Virginia. Photographed by Henry 



Troth facing 394 



Beehives under the Trees. Photographed by Henry Troth . 395 

 Spring House at Johnson Homestead, Germantown, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Photographed by Henry Troth . . . facing 396 

 Dovecote at SJiirley-on-James, Virginia. From Some Colonial 

 Mansions and Those who lived in Them. Published by 

 Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia .... 397 



The Peacock in his Pride < 39& 



The Guardian of t lie Garden ....... 400 



Brick Terrace Wall at Van Cortlandt Manor. Photo- 

 graphed by f. Horace McFarland . . . facing 402 

 Rail Fence Corner ......... 403 



Topiary Work at Levens Hall ....... 404 



Oval Pergola at Arlington, Virginia. Photographed by Eliza- 



beth W Trescot facing 406 



French Homestead, Kingston, Rhode Island, with Old Stone 



Terrace Wall. Photographed by Sarah F. Marchant . 407 

 Italian Garden at Wellesley, Massachusetts. Country -scat of 



Hollis H. Hunnewell, Esq. .... facing 408 



Marble Steps in Italian Garden at Wellesley, Massachusetts . 410 



Topiary Work in California .412 



Serpentine Brick Wall at University of Virginia, Charlottes- 

 ville, Virginia. Photographed by Elizabeth //'. Trescot . 413 

 Chestnut Path in Garden at Indian Hill, Newburyport, Mas- 

 sachusetts. Photographed by Herschel F. Davis facing 418 

 Foxgloves in Lower Garden at Indian Hill, Alewburyport, 



Massachusetts. Photographed by Herschel F. Davis . 421 

 Darnels Rocket. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall . . 424 

 Snakeroot. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall . . . 426 

 Title-page of Parkinson's Paradisi in Solis, etc. . facing 428 

 Yuccas, like White Marble against the Evergreens . . . 430 

 Fraxinella in Garden of Miss Frances Clary Morse. Worces- 

 ter, Massachusetts facing 432 



Love-in-a-Mist. Photographed by Henry Troth . . . 436 

 Spiderwort in an Old Worcester Garden. Photographed by 



Herschel F. Davis facing 438 



