LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



COLOURED PLATES 



PAGE 



Mixed borders of Hardy Flowers Frontispiece 



Long-spurred Columbines, or Aquilegias facing 8 



Three good garden Roses 70 



Some beautiful hybrid Saxifrages 158 



A large-flowered variety of the Caucasian Scabious (Scabiosa 



Caucasica magnifica) . 572 



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Anemone blanda facing 4 



The Apennine Windflower (Anemone apennina) 5 



Poppy Windflowers (Anemone coronaria) ...... 6 



Japanese Anemones grouped for effect 7 



A border of Michaelmas Daises . . . . . . 10 



Michaelmas Daisies effectively grouped n 



Auricula offsets ,.........,, 12 



Alpine Auricula Roxburgh 13 



Single Hollyhocks 18 



Bordering of German Iris ?> 19 



Japanese Irises effectively grouped 20 



German Iris at Kew 21 



A seedling Violetta V \" .* .' ". . . . . 22 



Viola cuttings and seedlings . . *'.. 23 



A bed of Pentstemons . . , -.-*- . - ^ ^ ^ . 24 



Pentstemon cuttings . . .' .'. .' \ f . . 25 



A border of herbaceous Phloxes 26 



An edging of the old fringed white Pink 27 



Cuttings of Pinks . . . . ," . . . . 28 



The pink-flowered Oriental Poppy , 29 



Polyanthuses and Primroses at Wisley 30 



The double white Sweet Rocket ,, 31 



A mixed border beside a sunk lawn . .* , r . . . 36 



A border of simple mixed flowers ........ 37 



Planting plan of mixed border 40 



A mixed border in a small garden 41 



Staking and tying a plant 42 



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