FOREWORD 



This book is the outcome of a series of 

 articles on Landscape Gardening which 

 appeared periodically in The Florists' 

 Exchange. At the suggestion of the 

 publisher these articles have been aug- 

 mented, new subjects added, and the 

 whole more thoroughly illustrated than 

 was possible in the hmited space of a 

 magazine treatise. 



The book is designed to appeal, in 

 particular, to that large body of sub- 

 urban home owners who have moderate 

 sized properties susceptible of artistic 

 arrangement and beautification. 



It IS not possible for .the majority of 

 men and women to give a sufficient amount of time to the 

 study of design, horticulture and gardening, in order to treat 

 their individual properties in a practical and artistic manner, 

 and although nearly every one possesses the sense of taste to 

 the extent of appreciating the difference between that which 

 is pleasing and that which is crude or grotesque in the com- 

 pleted subject, very few have the time, imagination and 

 constructive power necessary to formulate a design which will 

 represent fully the capabilities of their own grounds, whether it 

 be a small plot or an estate of some acres. 



To assist all who are interested in the artistic development 

 of their home surroundings it has been the author's aim in this 

 book to set forth, in a clear and logical way, the basic principles 

 which will bring about the most desirable environment, from 

 a gardening standpoint, of the moderate sized city lot or the 

 suburban estate, however limited that may be. 



