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OCTOBER 



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Autumn mornings and robins Italian Daturas The useful 

 ' Myticuttah ' Nerines Three Cape greenhouse plants 

 Sweet Chestnuts Other people's gardening difficulties 

 Making new beds The great Apple time French White 

 Haricot The stewing of chickens and game Ee-planting 

 Violas and Saxifrages ' St. Luke's summer ' Plants for 

 August, September, and October London gardens . . 178 



NOVEMBER 



Letting in the autumn sun Jerusalem Artichokes Hardy 

 Bamboos Polygonum cuspidatum Autumn flowers 

 Small Beech-trees Last day in the country Some garden- 

 ing books of this century ....... 202 



DECEMBER 



Orchid-growing on a small scale Miss Jekyll's articles in the 

 ' Guardian ' Winter vegetables Laver as a vegetable 

 Advice to housekeepers Cooking sun-dried fruit . . 249 



SONS 



Boys and girls The health question Early independence 

 Public schools Influence of parents The management of 

 money Family life and its difficulties Sir Henry Taylor 

 ' Mothers and Sons 'The feeding of children The abuse 

 of athletics Success in life Spartan upbringing Youth 

 and age .... . ... 257 



FURNISHING 



Books on furnishing Smoking Morris's ' Lectures on Art ' 

 London houses New and second-hand furniture Curtains 

 versus blinds White paint Bookcases Bed-rooms Bath- 

 rooms Bedding Useful tables Rain-water . . . 276 



A DAT IN LONDON 

 Advantages of suburbs London life Picture exhibitions . 289 



