CONTENTS 



JANUABT, 1899 



Difficulties of growing Daphne indAca — 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 — Eippingille's patent stove — Blue flowers 

 — ' Snowdrop -time' — 'The Sun-ohildren's Budget' — 

 Floral notes from 'The Scotsman' — Eeoeipts . . 154 



FEBBUABY 



Mistresses and servants — Difficulty of getting servants — 

 Girls instead of boys — Registry Offices — The employ- 

 ments 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 — Re- 

 ceipts 187 



MABCH 



Confessions about diet — Cures for rheumatism — Effects of 

 tea-drinking — Sparing animal life a bad reason for vege- 

 tariauism — The Berlin foot-race — Mrs. Crow in Edin- 

 burgh — Bagehot on luxury — A word about babies — 

 German and English nurseries — Sir Eichard Thorpe 

 Thorne on raw milk — The New Education — Difficulty of 

 understanding young children — Gardening — Cooking . 220 



APBIL 



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 his- 

 tory — Cactuses again — Old mills — Mr. Burbidge on 

 sweet -smelling leaves — Florist Auriculas — Seed-sowing 



— Kitchen garden — Poultry 274 



