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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED TORONTO
[Illustration: Rose Arch and Garden Walk.
From a water-color sketch by George B. Bartholomew.]
With Illustrations from Photographs Taken in the Author's Garden by Professor C. F. Chandler
New York The Macmillan Company London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1930
Copyright, 1903, By the Macmillan Company.
All rights reserved--no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher.
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1903.
Printed in the United States of America by Berwick & Smith Co.
TO THE BEST FRIEND OF MY GARDEN, WHO, WITH HEART AND HANDS, HAS HELPED TO MAKE IT WHAT IT IS
This little book is only meant to tell briefly of a few shrubs, hardy perennials, biennials and annuals of simple culture. I send it forth, hoping that my readers may find within its pages some help to plant and make their gardens grow.
II. Hardy Gardening and Preparation of the Soil 9
III. Laying Out a Garden and Borders Around a House 19
IX. Biennials and a Few Bedding-out Plants 117
XIV. Water, Walks, Lawns, Box-Edgings, Sun-dial and Pergola 171
Rose arch and garden walk _Frontispiece_ From a water-color sketch made by George D. Bartholomew
Garden gate, with Japanese gourds 1 September twenty-ninth
Asters blooming in a border 16 September fifteenth
_Rhododendron maximum_ and Ferns along north side of house, with _Ampelopsis Veitchii_ 23 July fourth
Arch over Rose-walk covered with Golden Honeysuckle and _Clematis paniculata_ 26 September fifteenth
_Rhododendron maximum_ under a cherry tree 30 July fourth
Vase of Delphinium (Perennial Larkspur) 33 June twenty-first