_Lilacs at Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Home of Longfellow. Photographed by Arthur N. Wilmarth_ 141 _Box-edged Garden at Home of Longfellow, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photographed by Arthur N. Wilmarth_ 142 _Joepye-weed and Queen Anne's Laces. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall_ 145 _Boneset. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall_ 146 _Magnolias in Garden of William Brown, Esq., Flatbush, Long Island_ facing 148 _Lilacs at Hopewell_ 149 _Persian Lilacs and Peonies in Garden of Kimball Homestead, Portsmouth, New Hampshire_ 151 _Opyn-tide, the Thought of Spring. Garden of Mrs. Abraham Lansing, Albany, New York. Photographed by Pirie MacDonald_ facing 154 _A Thought of Winter's Snows. Garden of Frederick J. Kingsbury, Esq., Waterbury, Connecticut_ 157 _Larkspur and Phlox. Garden of Miss Frances Clary Morse, Worcester, Massachusetts_ 162 _Sweet William and Foxglove_ 163 _Plume Poppy_ 164 _Meadow Rue_ 167 _Money-in-both-Pockets_ 171 _Box Walk in Garden of Frederick J. Kingsbury, Esq., Waterbury, Connecticut_ 173 _Lunaria in Garden of Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, Fairfield, Connecticut. Photographed by Mabel Osgood Wright_ facing 174 _Dahlia Walk at Ravensworth, County Fairfax, Virginia. Home of Mrs. W. R. Fitzhugh Lee. Photographed by Elizabeth W. Trescot_ 177 _Petunias_ 180 _Virgin's Bower, in Garden of Miss Frances Clary Morse, Worcester, Massachusetts_ 184 _Matrimony Vine at Van Cortlandt Manor. Photographed by J. Horace McFarland_ 186 _White Chinese Wistaria, in Garden of Mortimer Howell, Esq., West Hampton Beach, Long Island_ 188 _Spiraea Van Houtteii. Photographed by J. Horace McFarland_ facing 190 _Old Apple Tree at Whitehall. Home of Bishop Berkeley, near Newport, Rhode Island_ 194 "_The valley stretching below Is white with blossoming Apple trees, As if touched with lightest snow._" _Photographed by T. E. M. and G. F. White_ 197 _Old Hand-power Cider Mill. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall_ 198 _Pressing out the Cider in Old Hand Mill_ 200 _Old Cider Mill with Horse Power. Photographed by T. E. M. and G. F. White_ 203 _Straining off the Cider into Barrels_ 204 _Drying Apples. Photographed by T. E. M. and G. F. White_ facing 208 _Ancient Apple Picker, Apple Racks, Apple Parers, Apple Butter Kettle, Apple Butter Paddle, Apple Butter Stirrer, Apple Butter Crocks. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall_ 211 _Making Apple Butter. Photographed by Mary F. C. Paschall_ facing 214 _Shakespeare Border in Garden at Hillside, Menand's, near Albany, New York. Photographed by Gustave Lorey_ 216