CONTENTS 



VOL. I 



A Synopsis of the Vegetable Kingdom 

 Index to the Synopsis 



Key to the Families and Genera . 

 Index to the Key 



Name-List: English equivalents of the Latin names of species 



Glossary of usual botanical and horticultural technical words 



Text, A and B 



Pages 



1- 78 

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79-136 



137-147 



148-159 

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 171-602 



FULL-PAGE PLATES 



Facing page 



Frontispiece 



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



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

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



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



fulgida, and in the foreground the low fine growths of Bigelovia Hartwegii 



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

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



VI. A good example of aquatic gardening, with water-lilies and Japanese iris 



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



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



IX. Arboretum. — Plantation of American oaks at the Arnold Arboretum; Solidago 

 canadensis underplanting ......... 



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



XL Arboriculture. — A palm plantation, with Corypha umhrnculifera in the foreground 



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



XIII. Bean. — The bush Hma (in color) ........ 



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

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



X^'L Botanic garden. — The formal garden of the Johns Hopkins University 

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



X\'in. Canadian orchard development. — The tidewater country in Nova Scotia 

 XIX. Canaflian orchard development. — The bench lands of British Columbia 

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



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