CONTENTS 



SEPTEMBER 



PAGE 



Reasons for writing another Pot-Pourri ' Advice of friends 



Criticisms grave and gay Return home after three 

 months abroad Disappointment with dry garden King- 

 fisher Sedum spectabile and insects Gardening Cook- 

 ing 1 



OCTOBER 



Gardening Echeverias Ignorance about bulbs Gossamer 

 time and insects The East Coast A new rockery 

 Oxalis floribunda as a vegetable Previous l Pot-Pourris' 



Cooking receipts, various Journey to Frankfort in 

 1897 Cronberg Boeeklin's Todten-Insel Jewish Cem- 

 etery Goethe's house Staedal Art Institute German 

 treatment of tuberculosis .47 



NOVEMBER 



Present of 'The Botanist' Echeveria and Euphorbia splen- 

 dens Cowper on greenhouses Cultivation of greenhouse 

 plants Bookseller at Frankfort Dr. Wallace on Lilies 



Receipts Winter in the country The sorting of old 

 letters . 86 



DECEMBER 



Lonely eyenings and more papers Figs from France 

 Hornbeams and Weeping Hornbeams Wire netting 

 round small fruit trees Damsons Roman Hyacinths 

 and Paper- white Narcissus Effect of coloured glass on 

 plants Use of corrugated iron Lord Lyndoch Culti- 

 vation or Mistletoe A list of plants Anniversary 

 present - giving Christmas decorations Acetylene gas 



The old learning to live alone Receipts . . 119 



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