LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Facing p. 



Coe's Golden Drop, one of the best of late dessert Plums ; it 



will thrive on a wall facing east 82 



The Rose Campion, Agrostemma coronaria . . . .112 



A pretty and free-flowering half-hardy annual for greenhouse or 



garden — Nemesia strumosa Suttoni . . . . .120 



The popular room Fern Asplenium bulbiferum. This graceful 



Fern bears young plants on its fronds 134 



The well-known forcing Strawberry Auguste Nicaise. . .136 



One of the best of rock;plants — Saxifraga Hypnoides. It covers 

 a considerable area of rockwork with foliage quickly, and 

 blooms profusely 148 



The perennial Candytuft, Iberis sempervirens, a good and inex- 

 pensive plant for rockery work. It covers a considerable 

 area quickly, and looks charming on the face of a large 

 stone 150 



Single annual Chrysanthemums from seed sown out of doors 



in spring 174 



White scented Poppies 174 



The variegated aloe-leaved Yucca (Yucca aloefolia variegata) 



as a room plant 190 



The pretty greenhouse Primula, Obconica, a very useful plant, 

 but one which sometimes causes sores on the skin of those 

 who handle it ungloved 202 



The pretty white Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia alba . . 234 



The beautiful spotted Gum Cistus, Cistus cyprius or ladaniferus 



maculatus, a charming shrub for dry rockeries . . . 236 



The purple Mullein, Verbascum Phoeniceum, a handsome 



border plant 254 



The double white Arabis, a fine dwarf plant for the border or 

 rockery, and almost as good as Lily of the Valley for 

 cutting 288 



Early white Roman Hyacinths grown in an ornamental vase 



containing peat-moss litter ; no soil is used . . . 292 



The sweetest of all winter-flowering bulbs, Freesia refracta alba 302 



A pot of " Butterfly Flowers " (Schizanthus), a splendid green- 

 house plant, both for spring and autumn bloom . . . 306 

 Double Trumpet Daffodils, or Lent Lilies, in a border under 



a wall 316 



Winter cheerfulness in the bare border — a colony of yellow 



Crocuses 358 



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