CONTENTS. 



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JANUARY. 1 



Rosemary — Old uses of thii plant — Snowdrop — Snow- ■ 

 flake— Cyclamen — Candy tuft — Early flowering Cress — 

 Scented Colt's-foot — Winter Aconite .... 7 



FEBRUARY. \ 



Crocus — Mezereon — Pontic Daphne — Lace bark tree — Hep- i 



atica — Lilac Primrose — Japan Quince — Vernal Bulbo- ' 



codium — Corydalis 12 i 



MARCH. I 



Almond Tree — Coronilla — Garden Dafl^odils — Polyanthus — \ 

 Anemone — Star of Bethlehem — Dog's Tooth Violet — 



AVallflower — Flowers on Carmel Tulip — Crown Imperial — ] 



Penstemon — Periwinkle — Violets — Clandestine Violet — \ 



Pansy — Iris — Bulbous Plants — Cardamine ... 19 , 



APRIL. i 

 Flowers of Fruit Trees — Apple— Ornamental Pear and • 

 Cherry — Perfumed Cherry — Hyacinth — Garden of Hya- 

 cinths—Grape Hyacinth— Feathered Hyacinth — Garden ; 

 Daisies — Pyramidal Saxifrage— Round-leaved Saxifrage — , 

 Double Furze— Onosma— Dragon Flower — Dumb Cane — j 

 Horn Flower — Spiraea — Bridewort — Italian May — Bladder j 

 Nut — Auricula — Greek Valerian — Flowering Currant — i 

 Snowy-flowered Gooseberry^Berberry — Clustered Ber- 

 berry— Venus's Looking Glass— Mesembryanthemum — 

 Ice Plants — Lilac — Persian Lilac 37 



MAY. • ; 



Laburnum — Red Valerian — Ancient Spikenard— Lobelia — ' 

 Cardinal Flower — White Lobelia — Spider Wort — Bugloss — 

 Pelargonium — Myrtle — Heliotrope — Marigold — Rainy 



Marigold — Mullcius — Mallow of Scripture — Mallow i 

 Paper — Mallow used as food by Ancients — Lavatera — 



Heaths — Andromeda — Climbing Cobsea — Tiger Flower — j 



Box Edgings — Box Shrub of Scripture — CEnothera — ; 



Evening Primrose — Various species of Clematis — Japan | 



Corchorus — Bachelor's Button — Rue-leaved Ranunculus | 



— Asphodel — Regard of Ancients for the Asphodel — I 



Honesty — Perennial Adonis— Columbines — Pfeony^Tree j 



Paony — Rhubarb — Honeysuckle — Trumpet Honey- I 



Buckle — Rhododendron — Garlic — Garlic prired by the j 



Ancients — Syringa — Persicaria — Monkshood — Aconites— j 



Rose Acacia — Locust Tree — True Acacia — Charles's . 



Steptre— Escholtzia 63 i 



