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XL. Formal gardening, with veronica and phlox in the foreground (in color) 



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XLI. A good fern in southern California. Alsophila australis '. 1217 



XLII. A young Celeste fig tree, as grown in Georgia 1234 



XLIII. Floriculture. A house of begonias, with a row of ferns 1242 



XLIV. Forcing of grapes. Muscat of Alexandria 1263 



XLV. Ferns in a public garden, with springtime bloom (in color) 1307 



XLVI. Type of an old-time formal garden. Washington's garden at Mt. Vernon . 1315 



XL VII. Fringed gentian. Gentiana crinita 1327 



XL VIII. The garden gladiolus, variety "Peace" (in color) . . . ... . 1343 



XLIX. The Niagara grape (in color) . 1380 



L. The grapefruit. About one-third natural size 1391 



LI. A home greenhouse 1410 



LII. Heliotrope, an old-time favorite 1452 



LIII. Good use of spring flowers. Mertensia virginica 1470 



LIV. Herbs and shrubs employed about a pond 1481 



LV. Hollyhock .... 1497 



LVI. Roman hyacinth. One of the forms of Hyacinthus orientalis . . . .1614 



LVII. A night-blooming cactus. Hylocereus tricostatus in Hawaii. Hedge planted by 



Sibyl Moseley Bingham between 1831 and 1840 ... ... 1625 



LVIII. One of the many beautiful garden irises. Probably one of the hybrid or deriva- 

 tive forms of the germanica group . 1657 



LIX. Japanese irises. Iris Icevigata 1675 



LX. The black walnut. Juglans nigra 1717 



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