CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGES 



The Point op View 1-5 



What a garden is 3 



CHAPTER II 



The General Plan or Theory of the Place 6-60 



The plan of the grounds 8 



The picture in the landscape 12 



Birds ; and cats 16 



The planting is part of the design or picture 19 



The flower-growing should be part of the design .... 27 



Defects in flow^-growing 28 



Lawn flower-beds 29 



Flower-borders 31 



The old-fashioned garden ... .... 34 



Contents of the flower-borders . 34 



The value of plants may lie in foliage and form rather than in 



bloom .......... S7 



Odd and formal trees .40 



Poplars and the like 41 



Plant-forms 43 



Various specific examples 44 



An example . 45 



Another example 47 



A third example 48 



A small back yard 49 



A city lot ... . 50 



General remarks 54 



Beview 58 



CHAPTER III 



Execution of Some of the Landscape Features . . . 61-86 



The grading 61 



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