LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A Seaside Garden (see p. 243)[Frontispiece]
"The magnolias below at the road-bend"[8]
English Larkspur Seven Feet High[32]
Fraxinella—German Iris and Candy-tuft[44]
Longfellow's Garden[81]
The Summer Garden—Verbenas[86]
Asters[90]
The Pictorial Value of Evergreens[102]
"My roses are scattered here, there, and everywhere"[119]
Madame Plantier at Van Cortland Manor[128]
A Convenient Rose-bed[138]
"The last of the old orchard"[156]
The Screen of White Birches[166]
"An endless shelter for every sort of wild thing"[184]
Speciosum Lilies in the Shade[270]
The Poet's Narcissus[278]
A Bed of Japan Pinks[296]
Single and Double Pinks[314]
"The silver maple by the lane gate"[326]
"A curtain to the side porch"[328]
An Iris Hedge[358]
Daphne Cneorum[360]
A Terrible Example[362]
"The low snow-covered meadow"[372]
"Punch ... has a cache under the syringa bushes"[374]