List of Illustrations
The end papers of this book bear a design of the flower Ambrosia.
The vignette on the [title-page] is re-drawn from one in The Compleat Body of Husbandry, Thomas Hale, 1756. It represents "Love laying out the surface of the earth in a garden."
The device of the [dedication] is an ancient garden-knot for flowers, from A New Orchard and Garden, William Lawson, 1608.
The chapter initials are from old wood-cut initials in the English Herbals of Gerarde, Parkinson, and Cole.
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Garden of Johnson Mansion, Germantown. Photographed by Henry Troth [facing 4]
Garden at Grumblethorp, Home of Charles J. Wister, Esq., Germantown, Pennsylvania [7]
Garden of Bartram House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [9]
Garden of Abigail Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts [10]