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The sun-dial Insert on cover 



Excelsarose: "A wonderful grower . . . it blooms late." (I) . 



Frontis'piece 



"The forsythia ... its yellow bells are shaking ... At the 



foot there blooms a crescent of Golden Spur narcissus." (X) 65 



"An ounce of Shirley poppy seed . . . sowed along an eighty- 

 foot border ... in mid-June came days of poppy glory." 

 (XVIII) . 97 



"The giant zinnias are really gorgeous . . . The crescent border 



. . . glows with their stately flowers." (XXIX) . . .156 



SEPIA PLATES 



"The great old sycamore showed greater with the snow about it." 



(II) 1 



"The marvelous elasticity of the arborvitses under a great load of 



chnging whiteness." (Ill) 9 



"One winter day of hoar-frost . . . the delicacy of the twigs of 

 the young linden." (IV) 16 



"A carriage approach from the west." . . . "My son has 



acquired a pair of ski." (V) 20 



"A rain that froze around every twig . . . showed how beautiful 

 the Thunberg barberry hedge can become when it blooms in 

 crystal." (VI) 29 



"March is passing . . . The crocuses are likely to pop open 



suddenly." (VII) 44 



(xi) 



