ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The Pond Eff6ct — Lotuses and Water-Lilies 



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Frontispiece 



Lawn in Central Park, New York, near the Norii[ End ok the Mall 



■Rough Ungraded Bank . 



Closely Massed Rocks on Finished Steep Bank 



Partly Finished Rocky Bank Ready for Planting 



Entrance to Cave in the Ramble, Central Park, New York . 



Steps Leading to Cave in the Ramble, Central Park, New York . 



Stone Bridge Adjoining Large Natural Rock, Central Park, New York 



Yucca Recurva .... 



Yellow Jasmine (yasminuni. nudifloruni) 



Weeping Golden Bell {Forsythia suspensa) 



Flowering Dogwood {Comus Florida) . 



Double-Flowering Apple (Pyrus spectabilis) . 



The Double-Flowering Cherry {Prunus cerasus, Jl. pi.) 



Soulange's Magnolia {Magnolia Soulangeand) 



* Japan Weeping Cherry 



Japanese Magnolia {Magnolia stellaia) . 



English Hawthorn {CraicBgus oxyacantha) 



English Hawthorn {Cratcegus oxyacantha) 



Deutzia Gracilis 



Azalea Mollis 



Tree Peony {Paonia arborea) . 



Common Purple Lilac {Syringa vulgaris) 



Japanese Maple 



Horse-Chestnut Trees, Central Park, New York . 



Red-Flowering Horse-Chestnut {ySsculus rubicunda) . 



White-Flowering Horse-Chestnut {Aisculus rubicunda) 



Chionanthus Virginica . 



Rhododendron 



Pinxter Flower {Azalea nudijiord) 



Broad-Leaved Laurel {Kalmia latifolia) 



Gordon's Mock Orange {Philadelpkus Gordonianus) 



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* From a pliotogt-aph taken by Mr. Paul Dana from a specimen on the lawn of Mr. Charles A. 

 Dana, Dosoris, L. I. 



