INDEX 



Arnold, Sir Edwin, quoted, 16 



Asters, Hardy, effective for naturalizing, 



307 

 August compositions, 255 

 Autumn blooming plants and shrubs, 317 

 Background in relation to climbers, 118 

 Bare places, the problem of the, 19 

 Bedding plants, 287; combinations for 



spring bedding, 289; taboo list, 290; 



annuals, 296 

 Blossoming time of garden plants, 377 

 Blue flowers of midsummer, 131 

 Border planting in regard to season of 



bloom, 5 

 Bowles, Mr., quoted, 224 

 Bulbs, ground cover for, 20; for the 



shady border, 211 

 Climbing plants in relation to background, 



118 

 Colour chart for, and period of bloom, 379 

 Colour, natural progression, 7; harmon- 

 ious blending, 8; for the shady border, 



211 

 Colours predominating at certain seasons, 



7, 39 

 Coloured foliage plants and shrubs, 271 

 Columbines, flowers of grace, 83 

 Coral Bells, flowers of grace, 78 

 Cover plantings for bare places, 19 

 Creeping plants for covering bulbs, 21 

 Daffodils, best for certain situations, 51; 



for naturalizing along streams, 52 

 Day Lilies, varieties pale yellow to 



orange, 151 

 Drummond Castle, magenta flower bor- 

 ders at, 228 

 Earl, Rev. John, quoted, 334 

 Earl, Mrs., quoted, 224 

 Eliot, Clarence, quoted, 226 

 English gardens, colour arrangement, 4 

 Farrer, Reginald, quoted, 120, 229 

 Flax to establish among lilies, 28, note; 



delicacy and beauty of, 76 

 Flowering, periods of, 377 

 Flowering trees with Tulips, 58 

 Foliage, importance of, 19 

 Foliage plants and shrubs, coloured, 271 

 Fragrance of flowers at night, 200 



Fragrancy being lost for beauty, 206 

 Garden pictures, arrangement, 6 

 Gerade, John, quoted, 335 

 Grandmothers' gardens, of colour and 



fragrance, 3, 224 

 Gray plants for border and shrubbery, 



281 

 Ground cover for bulbs, 20 

 Harmony in colour blending, 8 

 Helianthus, ineradicable in the garden, 



266 

 Hemerocallis, varieties from pale yellow 



to orange, 151 

 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, quoted, 



174 

 Hulm, Frederick, quoted, 335 

 Interplanting to prevent bareness, 22 

 Irises to flower with Tulips, 68 

 Italian garden pools, plantings for, 193 

 Japanese, skill in colour harmony, 13; 



most sensitive to colour, 15 

 Jekyll, Miss, quoted, 5, 224 

 Keeler, Harriet, quoted, 39 

 Kniphofias, winter protection for, 265 

 Late-flowering plants for concealing bare 



places, 27 

 Lavender and purple Phloxes, list of, 244 

 Lilies, schemes of interplanting with, 27 

 Maeterlinck, quoted, 244 

 Magenta, the maligned colour, 115, 223 

 Magenta Phloxes, list of names, 243 

 Markham, Gervaise, quoted, 338 

 Michaelmas Daisies, 301; list of best 



September flowering, 306 

 Night-blooming flowers, 197 

 Northern exposure, plants and shrubs 



suitable for, 218 

 Old-fashioned plant names, 333 

 One-colour gardens, 6 

 Papaver rupifragum, to establish among 



Lilies, 28, note 

 Parkinson John, quoted, 335, 337 

 Peony, Chinese Tree, 120 

 Peonies, Pink and others, 119 

 Periods of flowering, 377 

 Phillpotts, Eden, quoted, 109 

 Phloxes, varieties and colours, 239; 



magenta, list of names, 243; lavender 



409 



