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All about miniature plants and gardens indoors and out

Chapter 2: List of Illustrations
By Bernice Brilmayer
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A practical handbook outlines techniques for creating and caring for small-scale gardens indoors and outdoors, with projects adapted to limited space. It surveys types of miniature plantings—window and lighted gardens, container and glass terrariums, small greenhouses, sink gardens, bonsai-style specimens, rock and wall arrangements, pools and woodland scenes—and offers plant selections suitable for each. Guidance covers propagation, pruning, construction details, and seasonal care, accompanied by sketches, illustrations, and landscape designs. Appendices list suppliers, a bibliography, and indexing to help readers locate plants and materials.

List of Illustrations

COLOR
By the author except as noted
BETWEEN PAGES
Formal garden in a wash-boiler lid 32–33
Tiny tropical garden with pool 64–65
Achimenes, a beautiful gesneriad 96–97
Twenty-three varieties of miniature and dwarf geraniums 128–129
Streptocarpus, Weismoor hybrid 160–161
Rose and miniature rose 192–193
Garden in the landscape 224–225
Rock garden effectively composed 256–257
BLACK AND WHITE
By the author except as noted
Miniature geraniums in uniform rows 20
Mexican motif with cacti in window box 21
Child’s cactus garden over radiator 21
Small plants in a lighted bookcase 25
An indoor “jungle garden” 26
Light-case planted with various small plants 28
Light shelves with begonias 29
Kenilworth ivy in gnome strawberry jar 40
Pawnbroker’s planter with ivy 41
Pruning a dish garden 43
Apple-tree root with pocket for plants 45
Miniature plants in fish bowls
(Industrial Photographic Specialists)		 54
Converting a cider jug into a terrarium 56–57
Commercially produced terrarium (Russ Stone) 65
Author’s succulent garden 68
Rampant greenhouse 69
Unusual propagation box 87
Sprouted stem cuttings of dwarf geraniums 88
‘Spaulding,’ bushy dwarf begonia 98
Group of dwarf begonias 99
Caladium humboldti 108
Miniature climber, Cissus striata 112
Ivy meagheri 119
Helxine soleiroli 121
Leuconeura massangeana 123
Oxalis hedysaroides rubra (Merry Gardens) 125
Three dwarf geraniums (Merry Gardens) 127
Dwarf geranium, ‘Robin Hood’ (Merry Gardens) 127
Creeping Pilea depressa 130
Hardy Saxifraga sarmentosa 133
Sinningia pusilla, miniature of miniatures 135
A miniature rose grows 146–147
Miniature garden of dwarf evergreens 152
Rock garden in a wash-boiler lid 157
Variety of bonsai trees 162
Bonsai in citrus 163
White poppies in a tiny garden 178
Raised flower bed 186
Saxifraga seedlings 188
Trimmed lemon thyme and ivy 194
Constructing a no-cost pool 204–205
Wild garden in New York City 213
Bloodroot 214
Juniper with pansies 245
Planted cold frame 257
Author in her $00.00 greenhouse 279
DRAWINGS
Dream greenhouse
(Kathleen Bourke)		 66
A fancy to build on
(Kathleen Bourke)		 67
Foliage details of five popular miniature trees and shrubs
(Fritz Schaefer)		 237
Construction diagram for low-cost greenhouse
(Hal Gearhardt)		 280