CONTENTS 



VOL. I 



Paces 



A SYNOPSIS OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM . ....... 1- 78 



Index to the Synopsis . . ....... 78 



KEY TO THE FAMILIES AND GENERA . 79-136 



Index to the Key 137-147 



NAME-LIST: English equivalents of the Latin names of species .... 148-159 

 GLOSSARY of usual botanical and horticultural technical words .... 160-170 

 TEXT, A AND B 171-602 



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I. The azalea walk, Magnolia, South Carolina (in color) . . Frontispiece 



II. Vegetation areas. Aquatic, marsh and upland floras, and showing the relation 



of farm lands ............ 18 



III. Desert vegetation. The giant cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) ; also bushes of Opuntia 



fulgida, and in the foreground the low fine growths of Bigelovia Harticegii . 42 



IV. Upland vegetation. Trees on a wind-swept plateau . 79 

 V. Anemone coronaria, an old garden favorite ....... 171 



VI. A good example of aquatic gardening, with water-lilies and Japane.sc> iris . . 230 



VII. The flowers of the apple tree . . .313 



VIII. The York Imperial apple (in color) . . 331 



IX. Arboretum. Plantation of American oaks at the Arnold Arboretum; Solidayo 



canadensis underplanting .......... 352 



X. Arboriculture. Picea pungens, the Colorado blue spruce . . . 373 



XI. Arboriculture. A palm plantation, with Corypha umbraculifera in the foreground 389 



XII. Asparagus, variety Colossal ... . . . 412 



XIII. Bean. The bush lima (in color) ... ... 460 



XIV. Foliage begonias well grown in banks, with ferns and similar plants . . . 479 

 XV. The American blackberry. The Agawam, about natural size .... 510 



XVI. Botanic garden. The formal garden of the Johns Hopkins University . . 523 



XVII. The arrangement of bouquets ..... ... 534 



XVIII. Canadian orchard development. The tidewater country in Xova Scotia . . 562 



XIX. Canadian orchard development. The bench lands of British Columbia . . 575 



XX. A border of hardy bulbs (in color) . . 594 



