FOREWORD 



conditions, the results of which the author has also sought 

 to consider. 



Some difficulty has been felt in properly ascribing the 

 ownership of a number of the gardens illustrated. As a 

 rule, there is but one recognized director of the garden's 

 welfare rarely are two members of a household equally 

 interested. While he is by custom acknowledged master 

 of the house, it is oftener she who rules supreme among 

 the flowers. Misnaming the real possessor might be a 

 serious mistake; attributing the ownership to two is 

 superfluous; the benefit, where any doubt existed, has 

 been therefore given to the fair sex, with due apology for 

 possible errors. 



LOUISE SHELTON. 



MORRISTOWN, N. J., 



October 28, 1915. 



