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INTRODUCTORY 1-6
JANUARY 7-18
FEBRUARY 19-31
MARCH 32-45
APRIL 46-58
Woodland spring flowers -- Daffodils in the copse -- Grape Hyacinths and other spring bulbs -- How best to plant them -- Flowering shrubs -- Rock-plants -- Sweet scents of April -- Snowy Mespilus, Marsh Marigolds, and other spring flowers -- Primrose garden -- Pollen of Scotch Fir -- Opening seed-pods of Fir and Gorse -- Auriculas -- Tulips -- Small shrubs for rock-garden -- Daffodils as cut flowers -- Lent Hellebores -- Primroses -- Leaves of wild Arum.
MAY 59-76
Cowslips -- Morells -- Woodruff -- Felling oak timber -- Trillium and other wood-plants -- Lily of the Valley naturalised -- Rock-wall flowers -- Two good wall-shrubs -- Queen wasps -- Rhododendrons -- Arrangement for colour -- Separate colour-groups -- Difficulty of choosing -- Hardy Azaleas -- Grouping flowers that bloom together -- Guelder-rose as climber -- The garden-wall door -- The Paeony garden -- Moutans -- Paeony varieties -- Species desirable for garden.
JUNE 77-88
The gladness of June -- The time of Roses -- Garden Roses -- Reine Blanche -- The old white Rose -- Old garden Roses as standards -- Climbing and rambling Roses -- Scotch Briars -- Hybrid Perpetuals a difficulty -- Tea Roses -- Pruning -- Sweet Peas autumn sown -- Elder-trees -- Virginian Cowslip -- Dividing spring-blooming plants -- Two best Mulleins -- White French Willow -- Bracken.
JULY 89-99
AUGUST 100-111
SEPTEMBER 112-124
Sowing Sweet Peas -- Autumn-sown annuals -- Dahlias -- Worthless kinds -- Staking -- Planting the rock-garden -- Growing small plants in a wall -- The old wall -- Dry-walling -- How built -- How planted -- Hyssop -- A destructive storm -- Berries of Water-elder -- Beginning ground-work.
OCTOBER 125-143
NOVEMBER 144-157
Giant Christmas Rose -- Hardy Chrysanthemums -- Sheltering tender shrubs -- Turfing by inoculation -- Transplanting large trees -- Sir Henry Steuart's experience early in the century -- Collecting fallen leaves -- Preparing grubbing tools -- Butcher's Broom -- Alexandrian Laurel -- Hollies and Birches -- A lesson in planting.
DECEMBER 158-170
The woodman at work -- Tree-cutting in frosty weather -- Preparing sticks and stakes -- Winter Jasmine -- Ferns in the wood-walk -- Winter colour of evergreen shrubs -- Copse-cutting -- Hoop-making -- Tools used -- Sizes of hoops -- Men camping out -- Thatching with hoop-chips -- The old thatcher's bill.
LARGE AND SMALL GARDENS 171-187
A well done villa-garden -- A small town-garden -- Two delightful gardens of small size -- Twenty acres within the walls -- A large country house and its garden -- Terrace -- Lawn -- Parterre -- Free garden -- Kitchen garden -- Buildings -- Ornamental orchard -- Instructive mixed gardens -- Mr. Wilson's at Wisley -- A window garden.
BEGINNING AND LEARNING 188-199
THE FLOWER-BORDER AND PERGOLA 200-215
THE PRIMROSE GARDEN 216-220
COLOURS OF FLOWERS 221-228
THE SCENTS OF THE GARDEN 229-240
THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS 241-248
NOVELTY AND VARIETY 249-255
WEEDS AND PESTS 256-262
THE BEDDING FASHION AND ITS INFLUENCE 263-270
MASTERS AND MEN 271-279
INDEX 280
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 " 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. " 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
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