LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Jobbing Gardener ..... Frontispiece 



Ferns in a Coppice Ride . ... To face page 8 



Our Week-end Cottage— As We Found It . . „ 20 



Our Week-end Cottage— Two Years Later . . „ 20 



A Garden in the Making — Pergola and Spring 



Garden (First Stage) . . . . „ 34 



A Garden in the Making — Pergola and Spring 



Garden Two Years Later . . . . „ 34 



Midsummer in the Garden . . . . „ 48 



Our Week-end Cottage— The Path to the Front- 

 door ........ 58 



Our Week-end Cottage— The Porch at the Side- 

 door ........ 58 



Our Week-end Cottage— A Border of Hollyhocks „ 68 



Our Week-end Cottage— Entrance to the Pergola „ 68 



In a Country Garden — The Bridge, with Glimpse 



OF Herbaceous Border . . . . „ 78 



Shrubs at Wisley ....... 88 



In the Wild Garden— A Rose left to its Own 



Sweet Will ....... 98 



In a Country Garden— A Glimpse of Stream, Beech- 

 trees and Drive ...... 98 



Steps to the Rock Garden — "Sicily in England". „ 106 



In the Rock Garden— Double White Arabis . „ 108 



Nature's Garden— Wild Roses . . . . „ 108 

 In the Wild Garden— Wisley . . . . ,,112 



A Cottager's Garden . . . . . „ 116 

 In a Country Garden — Massed Rhododendrons 



backed by Yew and Weeping Ash . . „ 122 



