NOTE 



To Professor Sargent for permission to repub- 

 lish the article on the Arnold Arboretum; to the 

 editors of "House and Garden," "The House 

 Beautiful," and "The Spur" for their willingness 

 to let me use again various articles written for 

 them; to the kind owner of the "Hidden Garden" 

 and to Messrs. Hicks, of Westbury, Long Island, 

 for the including of that garden's plan, I offer very- 

 sincere thanks. To the Garden Club, of New 

 Canaan, and to Mrs. William H. Cary, whose 

 lively warnings follow the chapter "How to Form 

 a Garden Club," I am indebted for leave to print 

 the latter's "Don'ts." Miss Mildred Howells has 

 been so good as to allow the reappearance of 

 her gay and charming stanzas on the seed cata- 

 logue, and Miss Isabella Pendleton has kindly 

 permitted the printing here of her interesting 

 color-chart for flowers on page 103. Without the 

 help of Miss Kate O. Sessions of San Diego, the 

 description of the California planting would have 

 lost much value; and to the many friends — 



especially . to the Misses Smith of Four Pines, 



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