xii CONTENTS 
CHAPTER VII 
PAGES 
THe GROWING OF THE ORNAMENTAL Piants— THE CLAssES OF 
Puants, AND Lists. ; ‘ : - : 3 . 214-349 
Planting for immediate effect . , : . : 4 ‘ - 215 
The use of “ foliage” trees and shrubs. . . ; . 218 
Windbreaks and screens . : . : 5 ; : i » 219 
The making of hedges. : . . . . . ‘ . 220 
The borders. : . Z : . é : fi 4 . 222 
The flower-beds * : é é : ‘ a . : . 225 
Bedding effects . ‘ 5 Fi . 5 : , . 228 
Plants for subtropical effects ‘ 3 . ‘ ‘ . 229 
Aquatic and bog plants. : ‘ c . . ‘ . 230 
Rockeries and alpine plants. ei . : . ‘ ‘ . 282 
4. PLANTS FOR CARPET-BEDS . ‘ . : : - : . 234 
Lists for carpet-beds z : ‘i iS . ‘ . A . 236 
2. Toe Annuat PLants . . : : : ss F . 241 
List of annuals by color of Hiptnee ‘ ‘ 246 
Useful annuals for edgings of beds and cater and for pibhane aus: 248 
Annuals that continue to bloom after frost : . . 248 
List of annuals suitable ut bedding (that is, for ‘* mass- “afeels ” of 
color). ‘ . ‘ 3 . ; . 249 
List of annuals ty height, : ‘ ‘ . 5 ° ‘ . 251 
Distances for planting annuals x 2 x . ° “ . 256 
8. Harpy Herpacsous PERENNIALS. : A . 260 
Perennial herbs suitable for lawn and ‘epinnting M ‘affeoes F . 262 
A brief seasonal flower-garden or border list of herbaceous peren- 
nials . F ; t ‘ ‘ . 264 
One hundred extra- handy parental heres : 3 . ‘ 2 (273 
4. Buss anp TuBERS ei . ‘ ‘ 2 . . - . 281 
Fall-planted bulbs. ‘ ‘ f F . 281 
List of outdoor oe buts je the ‘North * : . . 288 
Winter bulbs. . . rl < ; 5 . 289 
Summer bulbs . . : é 5 - : . ‘ . . 289 
5. Tue Suruppery . é . ‘ : a . 290 
List of shrubbery plants for the North 5 3 . : . - 202 
Shrubs for the South . 3 3 ‘ ; ‘ é ‘ - 805 
