CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I First Steps Toward a Garden 1 



II Planning and Planting the Flower- 

 beds 9 



III Flowers That Must Be Eenewed 



Every Year (Annuals) 19 



ly Flowers That Live Through Two 



Years 30 



V FLO^^^^:RS That Come Up Every Year 



BY Themselves (Perennials) 37 



VI Flowers That Spring From a Store - 

 house (Bulbs and Tubers) 48 



VII That Queen — the Rose 58 



VIII Vines, Tender and Hardy 71 



IX Shrubs We Love to See 78 



X Vegetable Growing for the Home 



Table 82 



XI Your Garden's Friends and Foes 94 



XII A Morning-Glory Playhouse 102 



XIII The Work of a Children's Garden 



Club.... 107 



XIV The Care of House Plants 115 



XV Gifts That AYill Please a Flower 



Lover 130 



XVI The Gentlewoman's Art — Arranging 



Flowers. . , , 137 



