LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



A Prize Garden and Its Gardener Frontispiece 



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Garden of the South End Industrial School, Roxbury, Massachusetts 2 



Window-box of Sheet Zinc . ..... 4 



White Hyacinths in Paper Pot set in Jardiniere . , 5 

 Some Good Weeders ... .8 



China Aster Seedling . . -13 



A Young Gardener and His "Team" . . ■ iS 



Single Cactus Dahlia . . 27 



Striped Single Dahlia: Fedora . 28 



A Show Dahlia' . . . 30 



Decorative Dahlia: Mrs. Winters . . 32 



Rooted Cutting of Geranium . . . 36 



Young Geranium Grown from a Cutting .... 38 



Young Geranium Plant in a Paper Flower-pot ..... 38 



Begonia Stem Cutting 39 



Gloxinia Leaf Cutting . . 39 



China Asters ■ 42 



Dwarf Comet Asters . . . . . 43 



Comet Asters in Bamboo Holder. From "The Flower Beautiful" . 44 



Fifty Bulbs of Campernelle Jonquil . . . . 46 



Long-stemmed Tulips ■ 48 



Bulbs of Madonna Lilies 49 



White Cosmos 53 



Pink Cosmos in Austrian Glass Va^e . . 54 

 Parsley Seedling ■ ... -59 



Spearmint Cuttings Rooting in Sand ... ... 60 



Sage Seedling • ■ 61 



A Young Gardener . 62 



California Poppies in a Slender Vase 65 



Hyacinth Growing in Water in a Tall Hyacinth Glass 66 



Three Hyacinth Bulbs Grown in Four-inch Paper Flower-pot . 67 



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