CONTENTS

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I First Steps Toward a Garden[1]
II Planning and Planting the Flower Beds[9]
III Flowers That Must Be Renewed Every Year (Annuals)[19]
IV Flowers That Live Through Two Years[30]
V Flowers That Come Up Every Year by Themselves (Perennials) [37]
VI Flowers That Spring From a Storehouse (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 Will Please a Flower Lover[130]
XVI The Gentlewoman's Art—Arranging Flowers[137]