CONTENTS xi 



OCTOBEB 



PAilE 



Autumn mornings and robins — Italian Daturas — The useful 

 ' Myticuttah '— Nerines — Tliree Cape greenhouse plants — 

 Sweet Chestnuts — Other people's gardening diiScultles — 

 Making new beds— The great Apple time — French White 

 Haricot— The stewing of ehiokens and game — Ee-planting 

 Violas and Saxifrages— ' St. Luke's summer' — Plants for 

 August, September, and October — London gardens . . 17S 



NOVEMBER 



Letting in the autumn sun — Jerusalem Artichokes — Hardy 

 Bamboos — PoVygonum cuspidatum — Autumn flowers — 

 Small Beech-trees — Last day in the country— Some garden- 

 ing books of this century 202 



DECEMBEB 



Orchid-growing on a small scale — Miss Jekyll's articles in the 

 ' Guardian ' — Winter vegetables — Laver as a vegetable — 

 Advice to housekeepers — Cooking sun-dried fruit . . 2i9 



SONS 



Boys and girls — The health question — Early independence — 

 Public schools— Influence of parents — The management of 

 money — Family life and its difficulties — Sir Henry Taylor — 

 ' Mothers and Sons ' — The feeding of children — The abuse 

 of athletics— Success in life — Spartan upbringing — Youth 

 and age 257 



FURNISHING 



Books on furnishing — Smoking — Morris's 'Lectures on Art ' — 

 London houses — New and second-hand furniture — Curtains 

 versiis blinds — White paint — ^Bookcases — Bed-rooms — Bath- 

 rooms — Bedding — Useful tables — Bain-water . . . 276 



DAY IN LONDON 

 Advantages of suburbs — London life — Picture exhibitions . 289 



