INDEX 



NOTE: I do not claim that this is a perfect index, but it has been prepared on progressive principles. 

 Our horticultural books would be far more useful if the pictures were referred to in the index. Nothing could 

 be more inconvenient than the ordinary list of illustrations. The surest and quickest way to progress is 

 to have clear-cut mental pictures of gardens and plants. Next to the things themselves come pictures. I 

 want my readers to know exactly what I am talking about the precise garden effect that is good or bad. 

 Moreover, plant names usually bewilder beginners. They like to look up a name in an index and see if there 

 is a picture of that plant. So, too, the ordinary index omits all or most of the big ideas contained in the book 

 and, therefore, I believe the chapter headings ought to be in the index, as well as the table of contents, so 

 that there will be only one place to look. Theoretically this means a little duplication, but practically it is 

 better than dozens of worthless entries under such words as "the," "of," "an," etc. Away with mechan- 

 ical methods! An author ought to make his own index and let common sense prevail over cast-iron rules. 

 How can anybody make a good index who knows nothing of subject matter? W. M. 



Msculus parviflora, plate 70 

 Age effect in one year, plate 69. 

 quickly gotten in a formal 

 garden, plate 6. 

 on walls, 86 

 value of, 5 

 Air and shade, 191 

 Alpine flowers, 243-258, 65-72 

 collection of, plate 50 

 Effects we can't have, 248 

 from seed, 86 

 dwarf, 247 

 hard to grow, 248 

 taller, 246. 



garden, right way to make, plate 

 84 



Sir Frank Crisp's, plate 79 

 wrong way to make, plate 83 

 Alum root, 68 



Amaryllis, collection of, plate 52 

 American estates, trouble with, 70 

 Ampelopsis, 218 

 Anagallis tenella, 99 

 Anchusa, Dropmore, plate 78 

 Anderson, Larz, 7, 21 

 Andromeda, mountain, 78 

 Anemone Apennina, 58 

 blanda, 58 

 Robinsoniana, 58 

 Apgar's "Ornamental Shrubs," 



205 



Arbour, vines for, 216 

 Arboretum, Arnold, 8, 185 



private, 184 

 Arch of roses, plate 75 

 Architectural effect, perennials 



for, 230 



Architecture and vines, 211 

 Armeria plantaginea, plate 81 

 Ash, mountain, see Rowan 

 Asters, perennial, 236 

 Autumn colours, 196 



Azalea amana, 176 

 flame, 78 



garden at Kew; plate 72 

 Paseye, 78 



B 



Background, evergreen, 167 



for hardy flowers, 92 



vines, 212 



Back yard, plates, 57, 58, no 

 Bailey's "Cyclopedia of Horti- 

 culture," 205 

 Bamboo, evergreen, plates 67, 107 



hardy, 174, 233, 328, 329 



lady, plate 107 

 Barr, J. William, 230 

 Barren, Leonard, 103, 105 

 Bayberry, 300 

 Bedding, plate 10 



hardy, 308-317 



tender, 19 



Berberis Japonica, 176 

 Birds, flowers attracting, 238 

 Bisset, Peter, 51 

 Blairsden, 21 

 Bloodroot, 57, 68 

 Bluebells, plate 24 



American, 68 



English, 68 



Scotch, 264 



Blue flowers, sheets of, 58 

 Bluets, 68 

 Bog garden, 75-82, 289-303 



Hyde Park, plate 34 



pimpernel, plate 100 

 Borders, 35-42, 227-241 



double, plates 19, 54 



straight, narrow, plate 16 

 Boundary necessary to garden, 16 

 Bournville, 131-142 



back yard, plate 56 



front yard gardens in. p ate 55 



fruit trees, plate 57 



Bournville 



unity and variety, plate 58 



vines, plate 59 



Bowling greens, plates 13, 14, 38 

 Box, 172, 280 

 Breese's garden, 31 

 Brick, vines for, 212 

 Broad-leaved evergreens, 159- 



179, 316 

 Bulbs, 261-273 

 Bunchberry, plate 5 

 Burbank, Luther, 122, 124, 

 Bushey Park, plate 69 

 Butterflies, 238 

 Buxus Japonica, 173 



Cacti, hardy, 68 

 Cadbury, George, 132 

 Calamintha Requieni, 300 

 Caltha palustris, plate 101 

 Campanula Portenschlagiana, 



plate 36 



Candleberry, 300 

 Cannas spoiling water picture, 6c 

 Cardinal flowers, 60 

 Carnations, hardy, plate 54 

 Carpet bedding, 309 



of moss, plate 95 

 Carpeting for flower beds, 314 



rose beds, 97 



plants, 71, 277-286 

 Catalpa, plate 69 

 Cedar, Mount Atlas, plate 61 



of Lebanon, plate 63 

 Centrepieces for beds, 312 

 Charm and luxuriance, 45 



of English cottage gardens, 335 



of water, 45, 46 



impossible without privacy, 92 



'" "that damned," 45 

 Chestnut, doomed, 56 



horse, plate 68 



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