CONTENTS 



LETTER XVII 



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Protraction of Mild Weather Primroses A Cowslip on 

 Christmas Day Monthly Roses First^Winter-Aconite 

 Colt's-foot Snowdrops and Crocuses Mezereon 

 Pyrus Japonica Tropeolum Tuberosiim Edible Tubers 

 Unsatisfactory Experiment 130 



LETTER XVIII 



Town and Country " Winter and Rough Weather " Floods 

 Blizzards Thunderstorms Compensation Winter 

 Aconites in Snow Owls Coke 135. 



LETTER XIX 



Prolonged Frost Bird-Feeding Thrushes Blackbirds 

 Tomtits Wrens Moorhens Ice Shelters Gulls 

 Daffodils Thermometers Natural Thermometer 

 Effects of Frost on Aucuba " Ben" and'/' The Royal 

 Imp." . . . . . 141 



LETTER XX 



Backwardness of Spring Peculiar Ending of the Long Frost 

 Effects of Frost on Roses Puschinia Alstroemerias 

 Ants, their Nests in Floods and Frosts . . . . 149 



LETTER XXI 



Curious Behaviour of a Wagtail Difficulty of Accounting for 

 Same Rooks Drought Watering Plants Favourite 

 Flower Border Advantages of a Raised Border E. W. 

 Cooke, R.A. Bog Gitx&eaCypripedittm Spectabile- 

 Buck-Bean Nuthatch and Nut 156 



LETTER XXII 



Mistakes made by Artists in Painting Flowers Water- Lilies 

 Teasel Roses Truth to Nature Seed-cases Winter 

 Aconite Christmas Rose Crown Imperial Wood 

 Hyacinth Drought Glare Round the Sun . . . 167 



