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Edging of Striped Lilies in a Salem Garden. Photographed by 



Herschel F. Davis 283 



Garden Seat at Avonwood Court. Photographed by J. Horace 



McFarland facing 286 



Terraced Garden of the Misses Nichols, Salem, Massachusetts 288 

 " A Running Ribbon of Perfumed Snow which the Sun is 



melting rapidly" At Marchant Farm, Kingston, Rhode 



Island. Photographed by Sarah F. Marchant . . . 292 

 Foimtain Garden at Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, New 



York facing 294 



Hawthorn Arch at Holly House, Peace Dale, Rhode Island. 



Home of Rowland G. Hazard, Esq. ..... 298 



Thyme-covered Graves. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall 301 



"White Umbrellas of Elder" 305 



Lower Garden at Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, New York 



facing 308 



" Black-heart Amorous Poppies'" 310 



Valerian. Photographed by E. C. Nichols . . . .314 



Old War Office in Garden at Salem, New Jersey . . .319 

 Crown Imperial. Page from Gerarde^s Herball . facing 324 

 The Children^ Garden ...... facing 330 



Foxgloves in a Narragansett Garden ..... 333 



Hollyhocks in Garden of Kimball Homestead, Portsmouth, New 



Hampshire ....... facing 334 



Autumn View of an Old Worcester Garden . . facing 338 

 Hollyhocks at Tudor Place, Georgetown, District of Columbia. 



Home of Mrs. Beverly Kennon ...... 339 



An Old Worcester Garden. Home of Edwin A. Fawcett, Esq. 



facing 340 

 Caraway ........... 342 



Sun-dial of Jonathan Fairbanks, Esq., Dedham, Massachu- 

 setts . . . . . . . . . 344 



Bronze Sun-dial on Dutch Reformed Church, West End 



Avenue, New York 346 



Sun-dial mounted on Boulder, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania . 347 

 Buckthorn Arch in Garden of Mrs. Edward B. Peirson, 



Salem, Massachusetts. Photographed by Herschel F. 



Davis . . facing 348 



Sun-dial at Emery Place, Brightwood, District of Columbia. 



Photographed by William Van Zandt Cox . . . 349 



