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Plants properly staked facing 43 



Godetias and dwarf white Alyssum 54 



A bed of mixed Candytuft 55 



Sweet Pea, King White ,,56 



A bed of unstaked Sweet Peas 57 



Plan of a sunk Rose garden ,,68 



Planting Roses ,,69 



Pruning hybrid perpetual Rose 72 



Pruning hybrid Tea Rose . . ,,72 



Pruning Tea Rose ,,72 



Rose Blush Rambler 73 



Result of disbudding .......... 74 



A Rose shoot ,,75 



How to plant Rose cuttings ,,78 



Rose diseases ,,79, 80 



Rose Florence Pemberton 81 



Protecting standard Roses 82 



Arches of Roses ,,83 



Rose Blush Rambler ,,84 



Rose Dorothy Perkins ,,85 



Rose Lady Waterlow, pegged down ,,86 



Rose Zepherin Drouhin, as a hedge ,,87 



Weeping standard of Dorothy Perkins ....... 90 



Rose Felicite-et-Perpetue 91 



Roses arranged in wicker basket ,,92 



Arch of Blush Rambler 93 



Belladonna Lily at Kew \ . A.' .' . .' ,_ . 98 



Autumn Crocuses in grass .' * .' . "** '" ''*."' . . 99 



Dahlias grouped for effect .' V . v . .' , . . . 102 

 Dahlia Kaiserin Augusta Victoria ........ 103 



The Snake's-head Fritillary . .' 106 



Golden Yellow Crown Imperial .' .'.'..' . . . 107 



Spanish Irises among Roses . . .,-'..' . . . . 108 



Snowdrops naturalised in woodland 109 



The buff-coloured Lily no 



The best form of white Lily . in 



Daffodils naturalised in grass . . . . . . . 114 



The Pheasant's Eye Narcissus . . l f :i> 'f ^ t t ,,115 



Narcissus Whitewell . . .' . . . . . . 116 



Mixed May-flowering Tulips . . ...:/,\. . . . . 117 



May-flowering Tulips protected . ' . '., . . . 118 



Choice Darwin Tulips . ' . . 1 19 



Carnation cuttings . .' . ,,126 



New white perpetual flowering Carnation 127 



House of Malmaison Carnation 130 



The double white Violet . . . . . . . . ,,131 



