NOTE 



In preparing this book I have found much help in Miss Grace Tabor's 

 "The Suburban Garden," Mr. A. T. de la Mare's "The Garden Guide," 

 and Mr. H. S. Adams's "The Flower Garden." To Mr. Leonard Bar- 

 ron, editor of the " Garden Magazine," I make grateful acknowledgment 

 for the use of tables taken from that publication. Miss Isabella Pendle- 

 ton and Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard Strang have also been kind enough to 

 lend for the book their charts or suggestions for color-arrangement of 

 flowers; and I am indebted to Professor E A White for the capital 

 tables of herbaceous perennials from a Cornell University Bulletin. 



To the friend who permits the publication of her planting-plan in 

 chapter n, and to those others who have given me many of the photo- 

 graphs for illustration, I am most grateful My largest debt, however, 

 is to my friend, Fletcher Steele, Esq., whose kindness in reading the 

 manuscript, and whose suggestions from the point of view of the land- 

 scape architect, I record here with warm appreciation. 



Louisa Yeomans Eaxa. 

 Orchabd House, 

 AuMA, Michigan. 

 April, 1921. 



