  | PLATE I. The open center. | | PLATE II. The plan of the place. | | PLATE III. Open-center treatment in a semi-tropical country. | | PLATE IV. Subtropical bedding against a building. Caladiums, cannas, abutilons, permanent rhododendrons, and other large stuff, with tuberous begonias and balsams between. | | PLATE V. A subtropical bed. Center of cannas, with border of Pennisetum longistylum (a grass) started in late February or early March. | | PLATE VI. A tree that gives character to a place. | | PLATE VII. Bedding with palms. If a bricked-up pit is made about the porch, pot palms may be plunged in it in spring and tub conifers in winter; and fall bulbs in tin cans (so that the receptacles will not split with frost) may be plunged among the evergreens. | | PLATE VIII. A well-planted entrance. Common trees and bushes, with Boston ivy. on the post, and Berberis Thunbergii in front. | | PLATE IX. A rocky bank covered with permanent informal planting. | | PLATE X. A shallow lawn pond, containing water-lilies, variegated sweet flag, iris, and subtropical bedding at the rear; fountain covered with parrot’s feather (Myriophyllum proserpinacoides). | | PLATE XI. A back yard with summer house, and gardens beyond. | | PLATE XII. A back yard with heavy flower-garden planting. | | PLATE XIII. The pageant of summer. Gardens of C.W. Dowdeswell, England, from a painting by Miss Parsons. | | PLATE XIV. Virginia creeper screen, on an old fence, with wall-flowers and hollyhocks in front. | | PLATE XV. Scuppernong grape, the arbor vine of the South. This plate shows the noted scuppernongs on Roanoke Island, of which the origin is unknown, but which were of great size more than one hundred years ago. | | PLATE XVI. A flower-garden of China asters, with border of one of the dusty millers (Centaurea). | | PLATE XVII. The peony. One of the most steadfast of garden flowers. | | PLATE XVIII. Cornflower or bachelor’s button. Centaurea Cyanus. | | PLATE XIX. Pyracantha in fruit. One of the best ornamental-fruited plants for the middle and milder latitudes. | | PLATE XX. A simple but effective window-box, containing geraniums, petunias, verbenas, heliotrope, and vines. | | PLATE XXI. The king of fruits. Newtown as grown in the Pacific country. | | PLATE XXII. Wall-training of a pear tree. | | PLATE XXIII. Cherry currant. | | PLATE XXIV. Golden Bantam sweet corn. | | PLATE XXV. The garden radish, grown in fall, of the usual spring sorts. |
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