CONTENTS. Vlll. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Threshing Machine Flower Show The Hollyhock and its Sug- 

 gestions The Law of Co-operative Activities in Vegetable, 

 Animal, Mental and Moral Life . . . . . .135 



CHAPTER IX. 



Visit to a Three-Thousand-Acre Farm Samuel Jonas His 

 Agricultural Operations, their Extent, Success and General 

 Economy 163 



CHAPTER X. 



Royston and its Specialities Entertainment in a Small Village 

 St. Ives Visits to Adjoining Villages A Fen-Farm 

 Capital Invested in English and American Agriculture Com- 

 pared Allotments and Garden Tenantry Barley Grown on 

 Oats 184 



CHAPTER XI. 



The Miller of Houghton An Hour in Huntingdon Old Houses 

 Whitewashed Tapestry and Works of Art " The Old 

 Mermaid" and " The Green Man" Talk with Agricultural 

 Laborers Thoughts on their Condition, Prospects and 

 Possibilities 206 



CHAPTER XII. 



Farm Game Hallet Wheat Oundle Country Bridges Fother- 

 ingay Castle Queen Mary's Imprisonment and Execution 

 Burghley House : The Park, Avenues, Elms and Oaks 

 Thoughts on Trees, English and American .... 238 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Walk to Oakham The English and American Spring The Eng- 

 lish Gentry A Specimen of the Class Melton Mowbray and 

 its Specialities Belvoir Vale and its Beauty Thoughts on 

 the Blind Painter 260 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Nottingham and its Characteristics Newstead Abbey Mansfield 

 Talk in a Blacksmith's Shop Chesterfield, Chatsworth 

 and Haddon Hall Aristocratio Civilization, Present and 

 Past . 281 



