X POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN 

 MAY 



PAOX 



Vegetable growing — Autumn annuals — Spring seeds — Descrip- 

 tion of my own garden — Weeding — Houses facing west — 

 Flowering shrubs — May flowers — Sundials — Boses and 

 Creepers — History of the Tulip — Salads — Plant shelters — 

 Sweet Verbena — Blue Anemones — Packing out flowers — 

 A few simple receipts — Plants in pots . . .86 



JUNE 



Hands and fingers after weeding — Shrub-pruning— Boxes for 

 birds — Bobins in greenhouse — 'Burning Bush ' — Two Poly- 

 gonums — Strawberries — Geraniums and cuttings — Cactuses 

 — Freezia bulbs — Gloriosa sii/perba — Luncheon dishes — 

 Cucumbers 116 



JULY 



The Welsh Poppy — Astrantias — Old Green Peas — ^Eed Currants 

 — The Madonna Lily, V&pie de la Vierge — The value of the 

 reserve garden — An English summer's day — ^Light soils and 

 dry summers — Other people's gardens — Notebooks — Sunny 

 lawns — Dutch gardens — Fountains and water-tanks — 

 Lobelia cardmalis — Watering out of doors — Two hardy 

 shrubs 128 



' AUGUST 



Gilbert White — The decline of vegetable culture in the Middle 

 Ages— Preserving French Beans and Scarlet Bunners— 

 Scotch gardens— IZVqpffioZMW speciosum — Crimson-berried 

 Elder — The coast of Sutherlandshire — The abuse of coarse 

 Creepers I45 



SEPTEMBER 



Weeds we alternately love and hate— Amaryllis belladonna- 

 First touch of frost— Colour-blindness — Special annuals 



Autumn seed-sowing — Ee-planting Carnation layers 



Planting drives and approaches to small houses ' Wild 



gardening '—Double Violets— Salvias— Baby chickens— 

 i'igeons IgQ 



