The Point of View 

 What a garden is 



CHAPTER II 



The Ge>'eral Plan or Theory op the Place 6-60 



The plan of the grounds . . . 8 



The picture in the landscape 12 



Birds ; and cats 16 



The planting is part of the design or picture 19 



The floii;er-grovnng should he part of the design .... 27 



Defects in flower-growing ........ 28 



Lawn flower-beds ......... 29 



Flower-borders 31 



The old-fashioned garden ........ 34 



Contents of the flower-borders 34 



The value of plants may lie in foliage and form rather than in 



bloom . 37 



Odd and formal trees 40 



Poplars and the like 41 



Plant-forms . . . . " 43 



Various specific examples 44 



An example 45 



Another example. ......... 47 



A third example ' . .48 



A small back yard 49 



A city lot ... . 50 



General remarks * . . . .64 



Beview 58 



CHAPTER III 



ExECUTiox OF Some of the Landscape Features . . . 61-86 



The grading 61 



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CONTENTS ^f\f<*^' 



CHAPTER I 



PAGES 



1-5 



