Graceful arrangement--How to manage thick-skinned stems--Colour-schemes--Bad colours for artificial light--Preserving and resuscitating--Table of flowers in season. The fashion of...
Best kinds for "roughing" it--Importance of cleanliness--The proper way of watering them. The majority of English women like to see their rooms, and specially their drawing-rooms,...
Description of a small yet lovely garden--Colour schemes--The spring dell--A novel way of growing flowers--Variety in flower-gardens. ="Be original!"= is a motto that every amateur...
Teas--Hybrid perpetuals--Some good climbing varieties--Treatment and soil--Rose hedges--Pillar roses. The reason for the heading given to this chapter is that growing roses for sho...
Slugs, and how to trap them--Blight or green fly--Earwigs-- Wireworm--Snails--Mice--Friends mistakenly called foes. =The best garden as a rule has the fewest insects=, indeed, no f...
Average Temperature 39. Begin sowing hardy annuals outside in a sheltered position. Refrain from pruning rose-trees, or they will suffer later on. New lawns can be made now, though...
Fruit--The best kinds for a small garden--Avoidance of size minus flavour--Vegetables--Herbs. If a small garden has room for any fruit-trees, =apples are the most useful= kind to g...
A few hints on its construction--Aspect and soil--A list of Alpines--Other suitable plants. A well-constructed rockery filled with a good selection of Alpine plants is a =never-fai...
By dividing--By cuttings--By seeds--By layers. =Propagation may be affected in various ways=, of which division is perhaps the easiest. It must be done very carefully, or decay wil...
What to go in for, and what to avoid--Brick walls--Trees, their advantages and disadvantages, etc. It is imperative that =a small garden=, such as one generally finds attached to s...
How to make them--Relation of box to residence they are intended to adorn--Suitable soil--Window plants for different aspects. Where gardens are small, one seems to need window box...
Spades and the Bishop--Weeding without back-ache--The indispensable thermometer--Well-made tools a necessity--Summer-houses and their adornment. Though it is true enough that the b...
JANUARY. Average Temperature 37. In frosty weather wheel manure on to ground. See that every plant which is not quite hardy is well protected from frost. Shake off any snow which m...
Planting--Watering--"Puddling"--Aspect--Shelter--Youth and age in relation to plants--Catalogue defects--A time for everything. Now that we have seen what to plant, it will be advi...
How to grow annuals--Some good kinds--Some good biennials. Many amateurs look upon annuals as rubbishy things to grow, and only suitable for the children's gardens, but that is bec...
Mistakes in staging--Some suitable climbers--Economical heating--Aspect, shading, etc.--The storing of plants--No waste space--Frames. =A well-kept conservatory= adds much to the c...
Some good plants for growing beneath them--Selection of hardy shrubs--Enriching the soil--Climbers. Forest-trees in a small garden are somewhat out of place, but as they are often...
Artificial manures--Labelling--Cutting off dead flowers--Buying plants--Tidiness in the garden, etc. With far the larger half of our population =the question of cost= comes into ev...
The sweet old columbine--BOCCONIA CORDATA at Hampton Court-- CAMPANULAS as continuous bloomers--The heavenly larkspurs--Christmas roses--The tall and brilliant lobelias--The Chines...
=Mulching=--Term used for applying manure in a thick layer round the roots of shrubs, as a protection from frost. =Pricking off=--Transplanting seedlings into separate pots. ="Eyes...
How to keep a lawn level--Paths, how to lay them--Beds and bedding--The new style versus the old--Flower-borders and their backgrounds--Improvement of the soil. =THE AUTOCRAT OF TH...