ILLUSTRATIONS 



COLOURED PLATES 



PLATE 



LARKSPURS AND TUFTED PANSIES Frontispiece 



WATER-LILIES AND SAXIFRAGA PELTATA 21 



LEMON LILIES NATURALIZED 25 



COLLECTION OF GERMAN IRIS 51 



AZALEA GARDEN AT KEW 72 



DAFFODILS AT GRAVETYE 88 



HORNED VIOLET, PARENT OF TUFTED PANSIES 94 



JAPANESE IRIS AND COLORADO SPRUCE 99 



ILLUSTRATIONS* 



1. THE SOUL OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 4 



2. THE ONLY WAY TO GET ENGLISH LUXURIANCE AND FINISH 6 



3. LUXURIANCE IN FOUR YEARS IN AMERICA 8 



4. COLONEL HOLFORD'S WATER GARDEN. RIGHT WAY TO USE 



"SPICE" 14 



5. A GROVE. BUNCHBERRY 16 



6. AGE EFFECT QUICKLY GOTTEN IN A FORMAL GARDEN . . 16 



7. WRONG TO IMPOSE FORMAL IDEAS ON LANDSCAPE ... 16 



8. WATER DOMINANT IN FORMAL GARDEN 16 



9. HISTORICAL IDEA DOMINANT. VEGETATION DOMINANT . 20 



10. TRIMMED TREES DOMINANT. BEDDING DOMINANT ... 20 



11. FLOWERS DOMINANT IN A FORMAL GARDEN 20 



12. FIRST ESSENTIAL TO OUTDOOR LIFE PRIVACY 20 



13. LAWN BOWLS OR BOWLING ON THE GREEN 28 



14. BOWLING GREEN AT SUTTON PLACE . 28 



*Mr. E. J. Wallis made all the photographs in this book, except the following: Mr. F. Mason 

 Good made those for plates 9 (lower picture), 17, 44, 5-?, 68, 71, 108 (upper picture), 109 (lower picture); 

 Mr. George A. Champion made plates 20, 25, 26, 40, 88; Mr. E. J. Dunn made plate 78 (Solomon's seal); 

 Mr. J. Horace McFarland made plates 3, 73 (upper); Mr. Henry Troth made plate 60 (lower picture); 

 Mr. Herbert M. Angell made plates 48, 85; Mr. A. G. Eldredge made plate 42 (lower); Mr. Thomas W. 

 Sears made plate 19. The following plates were made by unknown photographers: 21 (given by 

 Goldring), 42 (upper), 55 (lower, given by Mr. Robert Sydenham); 76 (upper, given by Mr. George 

 Sydenham). 



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