MY GARDEN. 



CHAPTER IX. 



MY FRUIT GARDEN. The Apple. The Medlar. The Pear. The Quince. The 

 Plum. The Apricot. The Peach and the Nectarine. Cherries. Currants. 

 Gooseberries. Strawberries. Raspberries. Grape Vines. Melons. Nuts. 

 Walnuts. Chestnuts. Almonds. Oranges and Lemons. The Custard Apple. 

 Figs. The Mulberry. The Prickly Pear. Anaspole Japonica, or Loquat. The 

 Banana. The Edible Passion-flower. The Pomegranate. Eugenia Ugni. The 

 Cape Gooseberry. The Cranberry. The Cloudberry. The Whortleberry. 

 The Dewberry. The Berberry. The Elderberry. The Stoneberry. Pine 

 Apple Pages 137 209 



CHAPTER X. 



GENERAL FLOWER GARDEN. Bulbous Plants. Perennial Plants. Bedding Plants. 

 Annuals. Biennials. Greenhouse Plants. Stove Plants . . Pages 210 267 



CHAPTER XI. 



SPECIAL FLOWER GARDEN, ETC. The Rosaries. Climbing Plants. Orchids. 

 Alpine Flowers. Ornamental Grasses. Weeds and Wild Plants. The Algae. 

 Mosses. Lichens. Liverworts. Fungi. My Ferneries. Lycopods, or Club 

 Mosses. Marsileas. Selaginellas. Horse-tails Pages 268408 



CHAPTER XII. 

 MY FOREST TREES. Shrubs Pages 409 --444 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. The Animalcules in the Water. Polypi. Worms. 

 Leeches. Fresh-water Sponge. Crustacea. Fleas. Parasites. Entozoa. Mites. 

 Plant Mites, or Red Spiders. Centipedes and Millipedes. The Garden 

 Insects: Hymenoptera ; Beetles, or Coleoptera ; Orthoptera; Hemiptera ; Neu- 

 roptera ; Lepidoptera ; Diptera. Slugs and Snails. My Fishery. Reptiles. 

 My Garden Animals. The Birds Pages 445 555 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 THE CLIMATE AND SPRING FROSTS. The Great Frost of May 1867. Pages 556561 



CHAPTER XV. 

 GARDENS OF VARIOUS NATIONS Pages 562596 



CALENDAR Pages 597 628 



INDEX Ajgrj 629 650 



