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Beds of Roses full of Blossom ..... 90 

 Flowers of Climbing Rose Mme. d'Arblay ... 91 

 Pillar of Rose Dorothy Perkins ..... 94 

 Rose Dorothy Page Roberts. ..... 95 



Rose Conrad F. Meyer 98 



Rose William Allen Richardson ..... 99 

 A Formal Garden of Free Growing Flowers , . .102 

 Climbing Roses and Hardy Flowers . . . .103 

 The lovely White Narcissus, Waterwitch . . . 108 



A little Water Lily Pond 109 



Sweet Peas at Edrom Manse . . . . .112 

 Standards of Rose Fisher Holmes. . . . .113 

 Rose Cynthia Forde . . . . . . .118 



Clumps of Sweet Peas .119 



"It is best to shelter them in a little plot enclosed " 124 



The Home Rock Garden 125 



Springtime in the Rock Garden . . . . .132 

 A Woodland Path, Blue-bell bordered . . . .133 



The Carpathian Harebell 138 



Sweet Rockets . . . . . . . .139 



Ivy-leaved Geranium in Jersey 144 



Flower Bed Planted with Lantana . . . 145 



A Garden of Bush and Climbing Roses . . . 148 



An Arbour of Rose Dorothy Perkins . . . .149 

 A Thatched Garden Gateway . . . . .156 



A Rhododendron Dell 157 



White Narcissi among Heather . . . . .162 

 An Azalea Garden . . . . . . .163 



A Blue-flowered Wall Shrub 170 



Verandah Pillar Covered with Clematis . . . 171 



A shady Garden Corner 174 



Daffodils Massed in the Grass 175 



Flag Irises 180 



Adam's Needle or Yucca gloriosa . . . .181 



Rose Antoine Rivoire 188 



The Formal Garden at the Castle of Plessis . . .189 



