LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



A Prize Garden and Its Gardener ...... Frontispiece 



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Garden of the South End Industrial School, Roxburv, Massachusetts 2 

 Window-box of Sheet Zinc 



White Hyacinths in Paper Pot set in Jardiniere 

 Some Good Weeders . 

 China Aster Seedling . 

 A Young Gardener and His "Team" 

 Single Cactus Dahlia . 

 Striped Single Dahlia: Fedora . 

 A Show Dahlia .... 

 Decorative Dahlia: Mrs. Winters 

 Rooted Cutting of Geranium 

 Young Geranium Grown from a Cutting 

 Young Geranium Plant in a Paper Flower-pot 

 Begonia Stem Cutting 

 Gloxinia Leaf Cutting 

 China Asters .... 

 Dwarf Comet Asters . 

 Comet Asters in Bamboo Holder. From "The Flower Beautiful" 

 Fifty Bulbs of Campernelle Jonquil . 

 Long-stemmed Tulips 

 Bulbs of Madonna Lilies . 

 White Cosmos ..... 

 Pink Cosmos in Austrian Glass Vase . 

 Parsley Seedling .... 



Spearmint Cuttings Rooting in Sand . 

 Sage Seedling ..... 

 A Young Gardener .... 

 California Poppies in a Slender Vase 

 Hyacinth Growing in Water in a Tall Hyacinth Glass 

 Three Hyacinth Bulbs Grown in Four-inch Paper Flower-pot 



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