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INDEX 



Pseudotsuga, 151 

 Pyrethrum, uliginosum, 59 

 Pyrus floribunda, plate 70 

 var. Scheidtckeri, plate 102 



Quick growing trees, 181 



R 



Reed, giant, 329 

 Red berries, 196 

 Redwood, 14.6 



Rhododendron and lily effects, 

 269 



Pontic, 58 

 Rhododendron Catawbiense, 58 



maximum, 58 



Rhododendrons, plates 64, 65, 67 

 Rice, wild, 60, 301 

 Riverhill, plates 64 76 

 Roadside gardening, 60, 90 

 Robinson, William, 47, 56, 95, 307 



See Gravetye 



Robinson's "English Flower Gar- 

 dens," 35,95 



Rock gardening, 65-72, 243-259 

 Rodgersia, plate, 78 

 Rogers, Julia E., 156 

 Roof, flowers on, plate, 37 



glass-covered, 114 



thatched, 327 

 Rose beds, carpeting for, plate 41 



that remain for eight years, 98 



Blush Rambler, plate 75 



bug, 102 



collection at Kew, plate 49 



Dorothy Perkins, plate 44 



gardens, 95-104 



tribe subject to scale, 187 

 Roses and lilies, plate 109 



in Oregon, plate 42 



on a pine, plate 74 



standard, 96 



Royal Horticultural Society's gar- 

 den, plates 32, 90 

 Rowan, 66 

 Rubbish, variegated, 59 



Sargent's "Silva of North Amer- 

 ica," 156 

 Sarracenia, 299 

 Saving of 17 per cent., 69 

 Saxifraga umbrosa, 171, 296 

 Scilla festalis or nutans, plate 24 

 Scillas, 58 



Scolopendium vulgare, 301 

 Sedums, 68 



Self-restraint vs. show, 9 

 Senecio Clivorum, plate 102 

 September border, 37 

 Sequoia giganUa, 152 



sempervirens, plate 63 

 Shade trees, 190 



Shady rocks, flowers for, 255 

 Shearing plants shameful, 307 

 Shortia, plate 101 

 Show vs. self-restraint, 9 

 Showiest flowers for bog garden, 



292 



plants for greenhouses, in 

 Showy masses of perennials, 228 

 Shrubbery, 195, 269 

 Shrubs, 195, 205 

 for bedding, 313 

 for bogs, 296 

 for cottage gardens, 242 

 for edging lawns, 278 

 roadside gardening, 60 

 winter beauty, 197 

 quick-growing, 203 

 slow-growing, 202 

 with highly coloured bark, 197 

 Summer effects in rock gardens, 



253 



Snapdragon, 66, 69 

 Snowball, Japanese, plate 73 

 Snowdrops, plate 89 

 Solomon's seal, plate 77 



false, 68 



Sorbaria Aitchisoni, plate 71 

 Sorrel, wood, 68 

 Speedwell, thyme-leaved, 68 

 Sphagnum, 80 



Spice, right way to use, plate 4 

 Spirea, elm-leaved, plate 77 



Waterer's, 60 



Spirit of gardening, 8, 9, 16 

 Sport and English character, 27 

 Spring beauty, 68 

 burst of, 195 

 garden, 36, 166, 198 

 Spruce, Colorado, 60 



Douglas, plate 62 

 Spruces, 100 feet high, plate 62 

 Statuary in formal gardens, 17 

 Steps filled with flowers, 87 

 Stonecrops, 68 

 Subtropical effects, 233 

 Summer coolness, 212 



flowers in cottage gardens, 339 

 house, 31 



Sutton Place, plates 14, 16 

 Sweet gale, 300 

 Sweet pea collection, plate 54 

 Sydenham, George, plate 76 

 Sydenham, Robert, plate 54 



Tamarisk, plate 105 

 Tamarix, 215, 316 

 Temple, 348 

 Tender bedding plants, 309 



plants by the water side, 60 

 Thalictrum Cornuti, 68 

 Thyme, 285 



Corsican, 300 

 Topiary work, plate 108 

 Trailing effect of Virginia creeper, 

 plates 39, 96 



Training climbing vines, 223 



vines, 212, 213 

 Trilliums, 57, 68 

 Trimmed trees dominant, plate 



10 

 Tree pretenders, 189 



roses, grotesque solution, 96 



rubbish, 188 

 Trees, big, plate 63 



cut-leaved, 188 



deciduous, 181-191 



evergreen, 145-156 



flowering, 186 



for cottage gardens, 342 



large-leaved, 326 



long-lived, 183, 191 



slow-growing, 182 



trimmed, 19 



with formal outlines, 189 

 Tropceolum speciosum, 221 

 Tropical foliage, 189, 321-331 



luxuriance in bog garden, 290 



plants, wonderful, in 

 Tropics, picture of, no 

 Twilight and British character, 25 



English, 341 



U 



Ugliness, 209 

 Underwood, Loring, 21 



Valerian, red, 66 

 Vegetation dominant, plate 9 

 Veranda, screened, 26 

 Verbena, lemon, 215 

 Viburnum, 201, plate 73 

 Vinca minor, 171 

 Vines 209-223 



evergreen, 170 



for arbours, 216 



brick, 212 



columns, 216 



cottage gardens, 342 



pergolas, 216 



on evergieens, 210 



vs. ornamentation, plate 59 

 Viola cornuta, 282 

 Violas, 97 

 Violet, bird's-foot, 68 



dog's-tooth, 57, 68 



horned, plate 94 

 Virginia creeper, plates 39, 74 



Water, plate 22 

 Vitis, 218 



W 



Wall gardening, 85-92 

 Wallflowers, 69 

 Walls, climbers for, 213 



dry, 88 



fancy, 90 



flowers for, 86 



