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JANUARY 1899 



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Difficulties of growing Daphne indica Journey last year to 

 Ireland Cutting down and re-planting trees Apples 

 Skimmed milk Manure heaps Winter Honeysuckle 

 Botanical Gardens in Dublin Botticelli's drawings 

 Tissot's Bible Rippingille's patent stove Blue flowers 

 ' Snowdrop-time ' ' The Sun-children's Budget ' Floral 

 notes from ' The Scotsman ' Receipts 152 



FEBRUARY 



Mistresses and servants Difficulty of getting servants Girls 

 instead of boys Registry Offices The employments that do 

 not take up characters Early rising Baron Humboldt 

 Coverings for larders Blackbeetles Children's nurses 

 Ignorance of young married women Some natural history 

 books Forcing blossoming branches Horticultural Show 

 Letter from San Moritz Receipts . . . . .184 



MARCH 



Confessions about diet Cures for rheumatism Effects of tea- 

 drinking Sparing animal life a bad reason for vegetarianism 

 The Berlin foot-race Mrs. Crow in Edinburgh Bagehot 

 on luxury A word about babies German and English 

 nurseries Sir Richard Thome Thorne on raw milk The 

 New Education Difficulty of understanding young children 

 Gardening Cooking 216 



APRIL 



Newspapers on cremation More about Suffolk Maund on 

 flowers that close Asparagus growing on the seacoast 

 Peacock feathers for firescreens Dining-room tables 

 Petroleum tubs in gardens Neglect of natural history 

 Cactuses again Old mills Mr. Burbidge on sweet-smelling 

 leaves Florist Auriculas Seed-sowing Kitchen garden 

 Poultry 269 



