CHAPTER XXIV
MASTERS AND MEN 271-279
INDEX 280
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FRONTISPIECE _face title_
A WILD JUNIPER _face page_ 19
SCOTCH FIRS THROWN ON TO FROZEN WATER BY SNOWSTORM " 27
OLD JUNIPER, SHOWING FORMER INJURIES " 29
JUNIPER, LATELY WRECKED BY SNOWSTORM " 29
GARDEN DOOR-WAY WREATHED WITH CLEMATIS GRAVEOLENS " 39
COTTAGE PORCH WREATHED WITH THE DOUBLE WHITE ROSE (_R. alba_) " 39
WILD HOP, ENTWINING WORMWOOD AND COW-PARSNIP " 43
DAFFODILS IN THE COPSE " 48
MAGNOLIA STELLATA " 50
DAFFODILS AMONG JUNIPERS WHERE GARDEN JOINS COPSE " 51
TIARELLA CORDIFOLIA " 53
HOLLYHOCK, PINK BEAUTY. (_See page 105_) " 53
TULIPA RETROFLEXA " 55
LATE SINGLE TULIPS, BREEDERS AND BYBLOEMEN " 55
TRILLIUM IN THE WILD GARDEN " 61
RHODODENDRONS WHERE THE COPSE AND GARDEN MEET " 65
GRASS WALKS THROUGH THE COPSE " 66
RHODODENDRONS AT THE EDGE OF THE COPSE " 68
SOUTH SIDE OF DOOR, WITH CLEMATIS MONTANA AND CHOISYA " 72
NORTH SIDE OF THE SAME DOOR, WITH CLEMATIS MONTANA AND GUELDER-ROSE " 72
FREE CLUSTER-ROSE AS STANDARD IN A COTTAGE GARDEN " 77
DOUBLE WHITE SCOTCH BRIAR " 81
PART OF A BUSH OF ROSA POLYANTHA " 82
GARLAND-ROSE SHOWING NATURAL WAY OF GROWTH " 82
LILAC MARIE LEGRAYE (_See page 23_) " 84
FLOWERING ELDER AND PATH FROM GARDEN TO COPSE " 84
THE GIANT LILY " 96
CISTUS FLORENTINUS " 101
THE GREAT ASPHODEL " 101
LAVENDER HEDGE AND STEPS TO THE LOFT " 105
HOLLYHOCK, PINK BEAUTY " 105
SOLOMON'S SEAL IN SPRING, IN THE UPPER PART OF THE FERN-WALK " 107
THE FERN-WALK IN AUGUST " 107
JACK (_See page 79_) " 117
THE "OLD WALL" " 117
ERINUS ALPINUS, CLOTHING STEPS IN ROCK-WALL " 121
BORDERS OF MICHAELMAS DAISIES " 126
PENS FOR STORING DEAD LEAVES " 150
CAREFUL WILD-GARDENING--WHITE FOXGLOVES AT THE EDGE OF THE FIR WOOD. (_See page 270_) " 150
HOLLY STEMS IN AN OLD HEDGE-ROW " 153
WILD JUNIPERS " 154
WILD JUNIPERS " 156
THE WOODMAN " 158
GRUBBING A TREE-STUMP " 161
FELLING AND GRUBBING TOOLS (_See page 150_) " 161
HOOP-MAKING IN THE WOODS " 167
HOOP-SHAVING " 169
SHED-ROOF, THATCHED WITH HOOP-CHIP " 169
GARLAND-ROSE WREATHING THE END OF A TERRACE WALL " 178
A ROADSIDE COTTAGE GARDEN " 185
A FLOWER-BORDER IN JUNE " 200
PATHWAY ACROSS THE SOUTH BORDER IN JULY " 202
OUTSIDE VIEW OF THE BRICK PERGOLA SHOWN AT PAGE 214, AFTER SIX YEARS' GROWTH " 202
END OF FLOWER-BORDER AND ENTRANCE OF PERGOLA " 210
SOUTH BORDER DOOR AND YUCCAS IN AUGUST " 210
STONE-BUILT PERGOLA WITH WROUGHT OAK BEAMS " 214
PERGOLA WITH BRICK PIERS AND BEAMS OF ROUGH OAK " 214
EVENING IN THE PRIMROSE GARDEN " 217
TALL SNAPDRAGONS GROWING IN A DRY WALL " 251
MULLEINS GROWING IN THE FACE OF DRY WALL (_See "Old Wall," page 116_) " 251
GERANIUMS IN NEAPOLITAN POTS " 267
SPACE IN STEP AND TANK-GARDEN FOR LILIES, CANNAS, AND GERANIUMS " 268
HYDRANGEAS IN TUBS, IN A PART OF THE SAME GARDEN " 268
MULLEIN (VERBASCUM PHLOMOIDES) AT THE EDGE OF THE FIR WOOD " 270
A GRASS PATH IN THE COPSE " 270
WOOD AND GARDEN