LIST OF PLATES 



I. The open center . Frontispiece 



KACING PAGE 



II. The plan of the place 8 



III. Open-center treatment in a semi-tropical country ... 18 



IV. Subtropical bedding against a building. Caladiums, cannas, 



abutilons, permanent rhododendrons, and other large stuff, 

 with tuberous begonias and balsams between .... 41 

 V. A subtropical bed. Center of cannas, with border of Pennise- 

 tum longistylum (a grass) started in late February or early 



March = . .62 



VI. A tree that gives character to a place 72 



VII. Bedding with palms. If a bricked -up pit is made about the 

 porch, pot palms may be plunged in it in spring and tub coni- 

 fers in winter ; and fall bulbs in tin cans (so that the recepta- 

 cles will not split with frost) may be plunged among the 



evergreens 98- 



VIII. A well-planted entrance. Common trees and bushes, with 



Boston ivy on the post, and Berheris Thunhergii in front . 120 

 IX. A rocky bank covered with permanent informal planting . . 151 

 X. A shallow lawn pond, containing water-lilies, variegated sweet 

 flag, iris, and subtropical bedding at the rear ; fountain 

 covered with parrot's feather {Mijriophyllum proserpina- 



coides) 230 



XI. A back yard with summer house, and gardens beyond . . 250 

 ■XII. A back yard with heavy flower-garden planting . . . 271 

 Xin. The pageant of summer. Gardens of C. W. Dowdeswell, Eng- 

 land, from a painting by Miss Parsons ..... 290 



XIV. Virginia creeper screen, on an old fence, with wall-flowers 



and hollyhocks in front 307 



XV. Scuppernong grape, the arbor vine of the South, This plate 



shows the noted scuppernongs on Roanoke Island, of which 

 the origin is unknown, but which were of great size more 

 than one hundred years ago ....... 319 



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