INDEX 



and purple, list of names, 244; soil and 

 conditions for growing, 251 

 Pictorial arrangement of gardens, 4 

 Pink flowers in the garden, 115 

 Plant names, familiar, 333 

 Plants and shrubs for shady border, 218 

 Pond shore spring pictures, 44, 165 

 Pool planting in the garden, 187 

 Poppies, preeminent flowers of grace, 85 

 Rose borders, 102 

 Rose colour in the garden, 115 

 Scarlet berries, shrubs and trees with, 327 

 Screening plants for biennials out of 



flower, 22 

 Seasons, gardens planned for special, 5 

 Sedding, John, quoted, 4 

 Seedlings, self-sown, eradication, toler- 

 ance, and appreciation, 28, 35, 36 

 Shadow and sunshine, flowers showing to 



best advantage in, 14 

 Shady border, colour for the, 211 

 Shrubs and plants for shady border, 218 

 Shrubs and trees with scarlet berries, 327 

 Shrubs, first to bloom in spring, 39 



Spring, first shrubs to bloom, 39; first 



flowering plants, 41 

 Spring-flowering shrubs and plants, 



pictorial arrangement, 43 

 Spring walk of Tulips with plan, 66 

 Staking of tall-growing plants, 28 

 Stonework, ferns and flowering plants 



for establishing in, 30 

 Streamside spring pictures, 44, 165 

 Sunshine and shadow, flowers showing to 



advantage in, 14 

 Taylor, Mrs. Basil, quoted, 125 

 Thoreau, quoted, 39, 60, 187, 194, 198 

 Tulips beneath flowering trees, 58; 



varieties used and their colours, 59, 



65, el seq.; early literature on, 69 

 Variegated plants and shrubs, 273 

 Waterside plantings, 44, 165 

 White, proper use in garden, 8 

 White and yellow in combination, 157 

 Wild flowers for the shady border, 211 

 Wilson, E. H., quoted, 40 

 Yellow and white in combination, 157 

 Yellow flowers in variety, 149 



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