CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAdES 



INTRODUOTOEY .1-6 



CHAPTER II 



JANUARY 7-18 



Beauty of woodland in winter — The nut-walk — Thinning 

 the overgrowth — A nut nursery — Iris stylosa — Its culture— Its 

 home in Algeria — Discovery of the white variety — Flowers 

 and branches for indoor decoration. 



CHAPTER III 



FEBEUARY " 19-31 



Distant promise of summer — Ivy-berries — Coloured leaves 

 — Serberis Aquifoliwm — Its many merits — Thinning and prun- 

 ing shrubs — Lilacs — Kemoving Suckers — Training Clematis 

 Flammvla — Forms of trees — Juniper, a neglected native ever- 

 green — EfEect of snow — Power of recovery^Beanty of colour 

 — Moss-grown stems. 



CHAPTER IV 

 MAECH . . . 32-45 



Flowering bulbs— Dog-tooth Violet— Eock-garden — Variety 

 of Ehododendron foliage — A beautiful old kind — Suckers on 

 grafted plants — Plants for filling up the beds — Heaths — An- 

 dromedas — Lady Fern — LUium auratum — Pruning Eoses — 

 Training and tying climbing plants— Climbing and free-grow- 

 ing Eoses— The Vine the best wall-covering— Other climbers 

 —Wild Clematis— Wild Eose. 



