CONTENTS 



SEPTEMBER 



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Reasons for writing another Pot-Pourri ' Advice of friends 

 Criticisms grave and gay Eeturn home after three months 

 abroad Disappointment with dry gardenKingfisher 

 Sedum spectabile and insects Gardening Cooking . . 1 



OCTOBER 



Gardening Echeverias Ignorance about bulbs Gossamer 

 time and insects The East Coast A new rockery Oxalis 

 flwibundaas a vegetable Previous ' Pot-Pourris 'Cooking 

 receipts, various Journey to Frankfort in 1897 Cronberg 

 Boecklin's Todten-Insel Jewish Cemetery Goethe's 

 house Staedal Art Institute German treatment of tuber- 

 culosis 46 



NOVEMBER 



Present of ' The Botanist ' Echeveria and Euphorbia splen- 

 dens Cowper on greenhouses Cultivation of greenhouse 

 plants Bookseller at Frankfort Dr. Wallace on Lilies 

 Eeceipts Winter in the country The sorting of old 

 letters . . . . . . ... . .85 



DECEMBER 



Lonely evenings and more papers Figs from France Horn- 

 beams and Weeping Hornbeams Wire netting round small 

 fruit-trees Damsons Roman Hyacinths and Paper-white 

 Narcissus Effect of coloured glass on plants Use of corru- 

 gated iron Lord Lyndoch Cultivation of Mistletoe A list 

 of plants Anniversary present -giving Christmas decora- 

 tions Acetylene gas The old learning to live alone 

 Receipts .... ..... 118 



