LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



A Prize Garden and Its Gardener ...... Frontispiece 



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Garden of the South End Industrial School, Roxbury, Massachusetts 2 

 Window-box of Sheet Zinc ........ 4 



White Hyacinths in Paper Pot set in Jardiniere .... 5 



Some Good Weeders . . . . . -. . . . 8 



China Aster Seedling . ... . . . . . 13 



A Young Gardener and His "Team" 15 



Single Cactus Dahlia 27 



Striped Single Dahlia: Fedora . . . '. . . .. . 28 



A Show Dahlia 30 



Decorative Dahlia: Mrs. Winters . . . . .32 



Rooted Cutting of Geranium . ... . , .36 



Young Geranium Grown from a Cutting 38 



Young Geranium Plant in a Paper Flower-pot 38 



Begonia Stem Cutting ......... 39 



Gloxinia Leaf Cutting . . ....... 39 



China Asters . . . . . . . 42 



Dwarf Comet Asters . . . . . . . . . -43 



Comet Asters in Bamboo Holder. From- "The Flower Beautiful" . 44 

 Fifty Bulbs of Campernelle Jonquil . . . . . . .46 



Long-stemmed Tulips . . . . . . . .48 



Bulbs of Madonna Lilies . . . . . . . -49 



White Cosmos . " . -53 



Pink Cosmos in Austrian Glass Vase .... ... 54 



Parsley Seedling .......... 59 



Spearmint Cuttings Rooting in Sand . . . . . .60 



Sage Seedling ........... 61 



A Young Gardener . . . . . . . . . .62 



California Poppies in a Slender Vase ...... 65 



Hyacinth Growing in Water in a Tall Hyacinth Glass .... 66 



Three Hyacinth Bulbs Grown in Four-inch Paper Flower-pot . . 67 



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