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XL. Formal ganiening, with \-eronica 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 12.34 



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 ]\It. Vernon 1315 



XLVII. Fringed gentian. Ge7itia7m crinita 1327 



XL^'III. 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 



LIL Heliotrope, an old-time favorite 14.52 



LIIL Good use of spring flowers. — Mertensia virqinica 1470 



LIV. Herbs and shrubs employed about a pond . . , 1481 



LV. Hollyhock 1497 



LVL Roman hyacinth. — One of the forms of Hyacinthus orientalis 1614 



LVIL A night-blooming cactus. — Hylocereua tricostatus in Hawaii. Hedge planted by 



Sibyl Moseley Bingham between 1831 and 1840 1625 



LVIIL One of the many beautiful garden irises. — Probably one of the hybrid or dei'iva- 



tive forms of the germanica group 1657 



LIX. Japanese irises. — Iris laevigata 1675 



LX. The black walnut. — Juglans nigra 1717 



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