| Puzzle Picture,—Find the Little Girl, | [Frontispiece] |
| Facing Page | |
| First Work in the Spring | [14] |
| Kim and Columbine | [40] |
| Taking Care of Table Ferns | [56] |
| Cleaning Up Around the Shrubs | [78] |
| All Ready to Hoe | [90] |
| An Outgrown Playhouse | [112] |
| Spring Beauties | [126] |
Line Drawings in Text | |
| Page | |
| Plan for a Small Back Yard | [12] |
| An Artistic Arrangement of a Narrow City Lot | [14] |
| Flowers That Will Bloom From Early Summer Until Frost | [16] |
| Blossoms in Japanese Arrangement | [138] |
NOTE
As the desire is to give the widest possible range of information about the plants and flowers mentioned herein, and space forbids going into details in each case, the writer has endeavored to mention all the colors, extremes of height, and entire season of bloom of each kind. But the grower must find out the particular variety obtained, and NOT expect a shrubby clematis to climb, or a fall rose to blossom in the spring!
GARDENING FOR
LITTLE GIRLS
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Fern'd grot—
The veriest school
Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not—
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay but I have a sign:
'Tis very sure God walks in mine.
—Thomas Edward Brown.